This paper analyzes how industrial agricultural production and an exclusionary immigration regime produce an embodied form of precarity among an undocumented immigrant labor force in the New York dairy industry, a much-celebrated engine of rural economic growth. In this industry, immigrant workers settle for years at a time, forming ethnic enclaves from which employers source workers for low-wage, exhausting, dangerous, year-round jobs. While much of the literature on migrant worker precarity has focused on temporary, insecure, flexible, and informal workers, this paper adds to this literature by analyzing how the permanence and regularity of dairy farming shape the embodied dimensions of worker precarity. The analysis shows how ‘everyday deportability’ (De Genova in Migrant “illegality” and deportability in everyday life. Annu Rev Anthropol 31(1):419–447, 2002), a weak regulatory structure, and the particularities of the production process combine to shape severe forms of physical risk to immigrant working bodies in the dairy industry. Findings are based on a qualitative study with current and former Latino/a dairy farmworkers between 2011 and 2015. This paper contributes to theorizing worker precarity in agricultural workplaces under the ongoing neoliberal restructuring of the global agri-food system.

本文分析了工业化农业生产和排他性移民制度如何在纽约乳业的无证移民劳动力中产生一种具体形式的不稳定，这是一个备受赞誉的农村经济增长引擎。在这个行业，移民工人一次定居多年，形成种族飞地，雇主从中寻找工人从事低工资、精疲力竭、危险的全年工作。虽然很多关于农民工不稳定的文献都集中在临时、不安全、灵活和非正式的工人上，但本文通过分析奶牛养殖的永久性和规律性如何塑造工人不稳定的具体维度来补充这些文献。分析显示了“日常可驱逐性”（De Genova in Migrant “非法”和日常生活中的可驱逐性。Annu Rev Anthropol 31(1)：419–447, 2002)、薄弱的监管结构和生产过程的特殊性共同构成了乳制品行业移民工作人员面临的严重身体风险。调查结果基于 2011 年至 2015 年期间对现任和前任拉丁裔/a 奶牛场工人的定性研究。本文有助于在全球农业食品系统正在进行的新自由主义重组下对农业工作场所工人的不稳定进行理论化。