Cultural and Medical Anthropologist & Physician
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Public Anthropology

Selected Op-Ed Publications:

2022. Quartz. “Sarait Martinez and Seth Holmes think coronavirus means we’ll finally appreciate our farmworkers.”

2021. BMJ Opinion. “Iatrogenesis and harm in covid-19 - when medical care ignores social forces.”

2020. AJPH. “Raids on Immigrant Communities During the Pandemic Threaten the Country’s Public Health”

2020. Salon. “Farmworkers are dying, COVID-19 cases are spiking, and the food system is in peril.”

2020. BMJ Editorial. “As societies re-open in this pandemic, we need social solidarity to survive the summer”

2020. The Guardian. “US food workers are in danger. That threatens all of us.”

2020. The Globe Post. “ICE Needs to Stand Down - For Everyone’s Good.”

2020. The Guardian. “ICE agents are still performing raids - and using precious N95 masks to do so”

2020. Salon. “In a defunded health system, doctors and nurses suffer near-impossible conditions.

2018. 48hills. “Special Report: Scenes from the migrant caravan in Tijuana, part 2”

2018. 48hills. “Special Report: Scenes from the migrant caravan in Tijuana, part 1”

2018. BMJ. “Hospitals as places of sanctuary.”

2016. Anthropology News. “Discussing “Suffering Slot Anthropology” with Migrant Farm Workers.”

2015. HuffPost. “American Politicians’ Reactions to Refugees Echo Past Xenophobia: Which Side of History Do We Want to Be on?”

2014. HuffPost. “Health Care and the Stalling of Immigration Reform.”

2013. Access Denied. “The danger of U.S. border control policy”

2013. Salon. “Not all migrants want to be immigrants

Selected Interviews:

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Seth M. Holmes

Decriminación hacia los campesinos mexicanos en EE.UU. afecta su salud

What’s it like to be a migrant worker?  One anthropologist migrated to find out

Today on Your Call: What are the stories of migrant farmworkers?

Crosscurrents: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: The Lives of Migrant

Why picking your berries for $8,000 a year hurts a lot

Crosscurrents: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: The Lives of Migrant Farmworkers

Flashpoints

Q&A Fresh fruit, broken bodies—A doctor’s journey among migrant farmworkers