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Im/migrant Suffering: “Illegality,” Health and Vulnerabilities in the U.S. and South of the Border
Fri, May 29, 6:00 to 7:45pm, TBASession Submission Type: Panel
Abstract
Recent writings by medical anthropologists have raised important questions about the health implications of “illegality” for undocumented im/migrants. Building on this work, this session examines the health effects of “illegality” in the U.S. and south of the border to acknowledge that the lack of legal status keeps undocumented migrants and immigrants vulnerable to injustices and interacts with other factors—political, economic, sociological, juridical and epidemiological. Papers in this session analyze the structural vulnerability of im/migrants and engage with the concepts of “illegality,” social suffering, structural vulnerability, symbolic violence, and embodied vulnerabilities while producing ethnographies of transborder suffering.
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Consequences of Legislating Illegality: Health-Related Impacts of Immigration Policy and Police Practices in Atlanta, GA - Nolan Kline, University of South Florida
Embodied Vulnerabilities: Health Effects of “Illegality” among Latino Im/Migrants in Southern Minnesota - Kristina Tiedje, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
The Puerto Rican Diaspora's Colonial Structural Vulnerability in the Global Narcotics Industry - Philippe Bourgois, University of Pennsylvania
A “Full-Blown Public Health Disaster” at the US/Mexico Border? “Illegality,” Child Migration, and Discourses of Contagion - Heide Castaneda, University of South Florida; Milena A Melo, University of Texas at San Antonio
Health and illegality on both sides of the border: Mexico and the United States - Agustín Escobar Latapí, CIESAS Occidente/CONEVAL