“We need more!”: Mexican Immigrants' Tacit Knowledge and Mississippi's Beef Cattle Industry
Originally published in The Southeastern Geographer, Vol. 65, Number 1, Spring 2025
Published in the spring of 2025 in the Southeastern Geographer, this paper focuses on the contemporary centrality of (de)valued migrant knowledge in the modern animal agriculture industry in the US South, drawing on research on tacit knowledge to explore the often-overlooked impact of immigrant knowledge on the Mississippi beef cattle industry. By focusing on Mexican migrants' indispensable skills and tacit knowledge, the article emphasizes the critical role farmworkers' knowledge plays in negotiating operational threats.
