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Field Reports

Documenting Vulnerability: Food Insecurity Among Indigenous Mexican Migrants in California’s Central Valley

Katherine Moos, Emerson Fellow
Published 2008

Oakland, California

Documenting Vulnerability: Food Insecurity Among Indigenous Mexican Migrants in California’s Central Valley provides an overview of food insecurity in the Mixtec community, an indigenous Mexican group in Fresno and Medera, CA, and outlines their experience with the emergency food system, their knowledge and use of the Food Stamp Program, and the potential for outreach in this community.

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Publication tags: Field Reports - Domestic Federal Nutrition Programs, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)/Food Stamps - Communities of Color, Emergency Food Recipients, Immigrants, SNAP/Food Stamp Recipients

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Katherine Moos

Emerson Fellow

Katherine graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2006 where she studied political science and Spanish.  She also studied demography and economics at the University of Havana and researched her thesis on reproductive healthcare in Cuba.  After graduating, Katherine worked as a research assistant at Boston Medical Center on the Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program, a public health study on the impact of Food Stamps on children’s health.

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