Preface -- Introduction: Anti-immigrant politics and medical legal violence -- States of injury : exception, emergency, and exclusion -- Hostile terrain : shifting ground and anti-immigrant assemblages -- Immigration federalism and healthcare surveillance in a progressive jurisdiction -- "No safe zones" : criminalizing patients and providers in the Nuevo South -- Medical legal consciousness in the "crimmigration" age -- Conclusion: What the pandemic has laid bare -- Appendix 1: Additional data and methods details -- Appendix 2: Note on using the terms "Latinx" and "Hispanic" in this book -- Appendix 3: Note on anonymizing fieldsites -- Appendix 4: Note on partcipants' gender and gendered labor.
Summary:
"This book argues that punitive federal immigration policies in the United States lead to "medical legal violence" that unites criminal law, immigration enforcement, and healthcare policy in ways that undermine the health of many Latinx immigrants and implicate the safety-net healthcare institutions and personnel that provide their care"-- Provided by publisher.
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