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Immigrant Farmworkers and Citizenship in Rural California: Playing Soccer in the San Joaquin Valley
Author(s): Hugo Santos-Gomez (Author)
- Publisher: Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc
- Publication Date: October 15, 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 278 pages
- ISBN-10: 1593326181
- ISBN-13: 9781593326180
Book Description
Santos-Gomez contends that soccer in the San Joaquin Valley constitutes a manifestation of a complex process by which immigrant farmworkers are carving out spaces of civic engagement, and more broadly speaking, practicing novel forms of substantial citizenship. Simultaneously, these processes constitute an expression of profound changes; on the one hand, the late re-intensification of California agriculture with increasing demand s of human labor for extended periods of time and, on the other, the increasing process of settling down of farmworkers that such re-intensification has favored, a labor force that until now, was highly mobile.
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About the Author
Hugo Santos-Gomez is a professor-researcher in the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, in Monterrey, Mexico. He is currently conducting research on the links between leisure, sport, and civil society. He earned his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
