Studies in Social Medicine
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Studies in Social Medicine

Immigration and Health in Rural America

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Studies in Social Medicine

Immigration and Health in Rural America

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This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States. Since 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy reveals that that the corporatization of health care delivery and immigration policies are deeply connected in rural America. Drawing from fieldwork that centers on Maryland's sparsely populated Eastern Shore, Sangaramoorthy shows how longstanding issues of precarity among rural health systems along with the exclusionary logics of immigration have mutually fashioned a "landscape of care" in which shared conditions of physical suffering and emotional anxiety among immigrants and rural residents generate powerful forms of regional vitality and social inclusion. Sangaramoorthy connects the Eastern Shore and its immigrant populations to many other places around the world that are struggling with the challenges of global migration, rural precarity, and health governance. Her extensive ethnographic and policy research shows the personal stories behind health inequity data and helps to give readers a human entry point into the enormous challenges of immigration and rural health.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781469674186
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Antropología cultural y social

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface: Writing Immigration: Love, Loss, and Longing
  9. Introduction: The Land That Time Forgot
  10. Chapter One: Journeys through the Heartland: Rural America as the “New” Receiving Destination
  11. Chapter Two. Ordinary Living: Everyday Injury, Disability, and Instability
  12. Chapter Three. Place, Personhood, and Precarity: Rural Dynamics of Health Care
  13. Chapter Four. Band-Aid Care: Small Fixes and Gaping Wounds
  14. Chapter Five. On Hope and Indeterminacy
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index