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Author Kline, Nolan, 1986-

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

Publication Info. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages).
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Series Medical Anthropology Ser.
Medical Anthropology Ser.
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
Note About the Author
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
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Rider University Libraries acknowledges the biased and pejorative nature of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) “Aliens” “Alien…” and "Illegal aliens" to refer to noncitizens and undocumented immigrants, respectively--and the harm it causes. While a change in terminology was approved by the Library of Congress in 2016, it was not enacted due to opposition by the 115th Congress (2017). As Rider University Libraries uses LCSH as its standard vocabulary, we are currently investigating how to best enact alternative terminology that will still ensure access to all materials on this topic.
Language In English.
Subject Illegal immigration -- Health and hygiene -- Georgia.
Illegal immigration.
Georgia.
Medical policy -- Georgia.
Medical policy.
Public health -- Georgia.
Public health.
Emigration and immigration -- Health aspects.
Emigration and immigration -- Health aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Georgia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kline, Nolan. Pathogenic Policing : Immigration Enforcement and Health in the U.S. South. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©2019 9780813595337
ISBN 0813595363
9780813595368 (electronic book)
9780813595337
9780813595320
0813595320
Standard No. 10.36019/9780813595368