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<p>Gun violence remains a pressing public health crisis in the United States, with mass shootings leaving profound social, psychological, and structural impacts. This study uses a qualitative single-case design to provide an in-depth, context-specific analysis of the 2023 mass shooting in New Hope, a coastal California farmworker community uniquely situated at the intersection of acute violence and chronic structural inequities. Drawing on pláticas with fourteen participants (five farmworkers and nine nonprofit responders), we explore how acute violence intersects with chronic inequities. Using an immersion–crystallization approach, we identified five themes: surviving violence, housing instability, institutional abandonment, community solidarity, and calls for reform. We argue that mass shootings in immigrant farmworker communities act as multipliers of structural violence through trauma magnification, work–home entanglement, and institutional neglect. These mechanisms transform acute harm into enduring collective trauma. Findings underscore the need for trauma- and culture-informed recovery strategies and structural reforms in housing, labor protections, and mental health access to support long-term healing and justice for farmworker communities.</p>

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Bearing injustice: a qualitative case study of structural violence, collective trauma, and farmworker survival after a mass shooting

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    2026年3月25日

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  • Juan Carlos Ruiz Malagon,
  • Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga,
  • Alonso R. Reyna Rivarola

摘要

Gun violence remains a pressing public health crisis in the United States, with mass shootings leaving profound social, psychological, and structural impacts. This study uses a qualitative single-case design to provide an in-depth, context-specific analysis of the 2023 mass shooting in New Hope, a coastal California farmworker community uniquely situated at the intersection of acute violence and chronic structural inequities. Drawing on pláticas with fourteen participants (five farmworkers and nine nonprofit responders), we explore how acute violence intersects with chronic inequities. Using an immersion–crystallization approach, we identified five themes: surviving violence, housing instability, institutional abandonment, community solidarity, and calls for reform. We argue that mass shootings in immigrant farmworker communities act as multipliers of structural violence through trauma magnification, work–home entanglement, and institutional neglect. These mechanisms transform acute harm into enduring collective trauma. Findings underscore the need for trauma- and culture-informed recovery strategies and structural reforms in housing, labor protections, and mental health access to support long-term healing and justice for farmworker communities.