Ethnic Studies

This roundtable, recorded in June 2025, highlights emerging scholarship on inter/nationalist solidarities with Palestine. It brings together emerging scholars in the fields of Indigenous studies, Asian American studies, and Pacific studies to document longer intellectual and activist genealogies of solidarity with and between Oceania, Asian/American, and the Palestinian diaspora. At the same time, this panel examines the larger inter/nationalist politics of settler institutions (i.e., the UN) and the collusions between North American and Israeli states to unpack the ongoing need to continue to articulate a transnational critique and analysis in the ongoing fight against genocide in Palestine.

Approximately 75% of farmworkers in the United States are Latino migrants, and about 50% of hired farmworkers do not have authorization to work in the United States. Farmworkers face numerous chemical, physical, and biological threats to their health. The adverse effects of these hazards may be amplified among Latino migrant farmworkers, who are concurrently exposed to various psychosocial stressors. Factors such as documentation status, potential lack of authorization to work in the United States, and language and cultural barriers may also prevent Latino migrants from accessing federal aid, legal assistance, and health programs. These environmental, occupational, and social hazards may further exacerbate existing health disparities among US Latinos. This population is also likely to be disproportionately impacted by emerging threats, including climate change and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Latino migrant farmworkers are essential to agriculture in the United States, and actions are needed to protect this vulnerable population.