LANDSCAPES OF CARE immigration and health in rural america.

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This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States. Since 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: SANGARAMOORTHY, THURKA
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [S.l.] : UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR, 2023.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Medical care > United States.
Rural health services > United States.
Services de santé rurale > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Immigrants > Medical care
Rural health services
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface. Writing Immigration: Love, Loss, and Longing
  • Introduction. The Land That Time Forgot
  • Journeys through the Heartland: Rural America as "New" Receiving Destination
  • Ordinary Living: Everyday Injury, Disability, and Instability
  • Place, Personhood, and Precarity: Rural Dynamics of Health Care
  • Band-Aid Care: Small Fixes and Gaping Wounds
  • On Hope and Indeterminacy.

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