The most costly journey :stories of migrant farmworkers in Vermont, drawn by New England cartoonists /edited by Marek Bennett, Julia Grand Doucet, Teresa Mares, Andy Kolovos.

GUSN

GUSN-361502

Description

xix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, "The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro) is a collaboration between the Open Door Clinic, Vermont Folklife Center, UVM Extension Bridges to Health, UVM Anthropology, and Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop. [It] is an ethnographic cartooning project that employs collaborative storytelling as a tool to mitigate loneliness, isolation, and despair among Latin American migrant farm workers on Vermont dairy farms."--Open Door Clinic website: https://opendoormidd.org/most-costly-journey/

Details

Descriptive Terms

Foreign workers, Mexican
Foreign workers, Guatemalan
Migrant agricultural laborers
Medicine
Foreign workers, Guatemalan.
Foreign workers, Mexican.
Migrant agricultural laborers.

Originator

Bennett, Marek, editor, artist.
Doucet, Julia Grand, editor, writer of preface.
Mares, Teresa M., 1978- editor, writer of afterword.
Kolovos, Andy, editor, writer of afterword.
Bissette, Stephen, writer of introduction.
Alvarez, Julia, writer of foreword.
Open Door Clinic,
Vermont Folklife Center,
University of Vermont Extension,
University of Vermont. Department of Anthropology,
Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop,

Description

xix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro) is a collaboration between the Open Door Clinic, Vermont Folklife Center, UVM Extension Bridges to Health, UVM Anthropology, and Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop. [It] is an ethnographic cartooning project that employs collaborative storytelling as a tool to mitigate loneliness, isolation, and despair among Latin American migrant farm workers on Vermont dairy farms."--Open Door Clinic website: https://opendoormidd.org/most-costly-journey/

Notes

"These stories first appeared as mini-comics published by the El Viaje Más Caro project at Open Door Clinic, Middlebury, VT (2015-2018)"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-220).
Library and Archives purchase, 2022

ISBN

9780916718008
091671800X

Call Number

Stacks HD8081.M6 V53 2021

Material Type

Biography Comic books, strips, etc.
Comic books, strips, etc.

Places

Vermont
Vermont.

Edition

English Language Edition.

Variant Title

Viaje más caro.
Stories of migrant farmworkers in Vermont

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