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Who Has Potatoes? Turning Points in Migratory Experience

Author: Bletzer, Keith V.
Date Published: 2003


Migratory farm labor like other forms of migrant work both in and outside agriculture impedes on the opportunity to make choices. This essay explores particular phases in the life of one man (single case study) and examines how he considers turning points in his life that led to a long period of substance use, both as an immigrant in the country and as a working man in his home country, followed by a cessation of use and the beginning stages of recovery

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