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Medical legal violence : health care and immigration enforcement against Latinx noncitizens
Author
Title
Medical legal violence : health care and immigration enforcement against Latinx noncitizens / Meredith Van Natta.
ISBN
9781479807390
1479807397
9781479807420
1479807427
9781479807437
9781479807444
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2023]
Physical Description
xi, 241 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary
"This book argues that punitive federal immigration policies in the United States lead to "medical legal violence" that unites criminal law, immigration enforcement, and healthcare policy in ways that undermine the health of many Latinx immigrants and implicate the safety-net healthcare institutions and personnel that provide their care"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 15, 2023
Series
Latina/o sociology series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
States of injury: exception, emergency, and exclusion
Hostile terrain: shifting ground and anti-immigrant assemblages
Immigration federalism and healthcare surveillance in a progressive jurisdiction
"No safe zones": criminalizing patients and providers in the Nuevo South
Medical legal consciousness in the "crimmigration age".
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