Pathogenic Policing : Immigration Enforcement and Health in the U.S. South.

By:

Kline, Nolan

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Medical Anthropology SerPublication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019.Description: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0813595363
9780813595368

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pathogenic Policing : Immigration Enforcement and Health in the U.S. South.DDC classification:

362.1086/912 23

LOC classification:

RA448

NLM classification:

WA 540 AG4

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: "They Will Stop You; 1. How Did We Get Here? Immigrant Policing in the United States; 2. Inside the Statehouse: Legislators' Perspectives on Georgia's Immigration Laws; 3. "We Live Here in Fear": Policing, Trauma, and a Shadow Medical System; 4. Immigrant Policing and Interpersonal Relationships; 5. "A Death by a Thousand Little Cuts": Health Providers and Immigrant Policing; 6. Patient Dumping, Immigrant Policing, and Health Policy; 7. "Stand Up, Fight Back; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Summary: The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the United States. Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the U.S., and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics, especially how policy can reinforce 'race' as a vehicle of social division. He argues that immigration enforcement policy results in a shadow medical system, shapes immigrants' health and interpersonal relationships, and has health-related impacts that extend beyond immigrants to affect health providers, immigrant rights groups, hospitals, and the overall health system. Pathogenic Policing follows current immigrant policing regimes in Georgia and contextualizes contemporary legislation and law enforcement practices against a backdrop of historical forms of political exclusion from health and social services for all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. For anyone concerned about the health of the most vulnerable among us, and those who interact with the overall health safety net, this will be an eye-opening read.

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About the Author

The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the United States. Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the U.S., and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics, especially how policy can reinforce 'race' as a vehicle of social division. He argues that immigration enforcement policy results in a shadow medical system, shapes immigrants' health and interpersonal relationships, and has health-related impacts that extend beyond immigrants to affect health providers, immigrant rights groups, hospitals, and the overall health system. Pathogenic Policing follows current immigrant policing regimes in Georgia and contextualizes contemporary legislation and law enforcement practices against a backdrop of historical forms of political exclusion from health and social services for all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. For anyone concerned about the health of the most vulnerable among us, and those who interact with the overall health safety net, this will be an eye-opening read.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.

In English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650