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Crafting Dignity: How Immigrant Dairy Workers Transform Rural Communities by Alisa Garni Bikes we’re protecting our own communitiesBased on years of ethnographic research in rural Kansas, Crafting Dignity is an eye opening look at why Latin American immigrants came to work on dairy farms in the Heartland and how their presence is transforming both the industry and their local communities. Immigrants in the United States are overrepresented among essential workers in agro food production. In the dairy industry alone, immigrants constitute 51 percent of the labor force and produce