How Latino Farmworkers Gather and Distribute Media to Navigate Their Environmental and Political Precarity

With extreme changes in climate and without sufficient legislation protection laws in Idaho, Latino farmworkers are vulnerable to health risks related to climate such as heat exhaustion, sun strokes, dehydration, and death. Along with the dangers of physical well-being, precariousness revolves around the current anti-immigrant and political climate. In this research, we will explore the hostility around Latinos by focusing on farmworkers by analyzing how they gather and distribute information. Another aim of this research is looking at how Latino farmworkers perform action by resisting forces, both political and environmental. This research will further the scholarship by looking at the coverage news outlets have on Latino farmworkers and how this potentially informs action by community formation. In order to investigate I ask, how does the way Latino farmworkers learn about news inform their environmental and political action? Furthermore, how does this foster community among Latino farmworkers? These questions will be explored through semi-structured interviews and participant observation.