Health Care and Immigration

Understanding the Connections
Herausgeber: Fernández-Kelly, Patricia; Portes, Alejandro

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume represents the culmination of state-of-the-art research whose purpose was to investigate the relationship between health care and immigration in the USA - two broken systems in need of reform. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 158mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780415519762
• ISBN-10: 0415519764
• Artikelnr.: 36142104

Autorenporträt

Patricia Fernández-Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Princeton University, USA, and a Research Associate at the Princeton University Office of Population Research. She has written extensively on international development and globalization, immigration, and gender and development. Her latest book focuses on the experience of African-American families in West Baltimore. Alejandro Portes is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, USA. He is an internationally recognized scholar who has made enduring contributions to the fields of Latin American Urbanization, International Immigration, Institutions and Development, the New Second Generation in the United States and Europe, and Economic Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Patricia Fernández-Kelly and Alejandro Portes 1. Life on the
Edge: Immigrants confront the American health care system Alejandro Portes,
Patricia Fernández-Kelly and Donald Light 2. Categorical inequality,
institutional ambivalence, and permanently failing institutions: the case
of immigrants and barriers to health care in America Donald Light 3. Access
to health services for immigrants in the USA: from the Great Society to the
2010 Health Reform Act and after David Warner 4. Rethinking the deserving
body: altruism, markets, and political action in health care provision
Patricia Fernández-Kelly 5. Structural violence and compassionate
compatriots: immigrant health care in South Florida Lisa Konczal and Leah
Varga 6. The power of local autonomy: expanding health care to unauthorized
immigrants in San Francisco Helen B. Marrow 7. Unequal Access: Insurance
Coverage and Immigrant Generational Status of Diverse Children Ethan J.
Evans 8. 'We eat meat every day': ecology and economy of dietary change
among Oaxacan Migrants from Mexico to New Jersey Peter J. Guarnaccia,
Teresa Vivar, Anne C. Bellows, and Gabriela Alcaraz V. 9. Gender and Health
among Mexican and Middle-Eastern Immigrants Jen'nan Ghazal Read and Megan
M. Reynolds 10. HIV and Latino migrant workers in the USA Jon Persichino
and Leticia Ibarra 11. Beyond health care reform: immigrants and the future
of medicine Christopher Searles; Postscript Marisel Losa and Alan Goldsmith