@article{1476847,
      recid = {1476847},
      author = {Van Natta, Meredith, },
      title = {Medical Legal Violence : Health Care and Immigration  Enforcement Against Latinx Noncitizens /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {An urgent study on how punitive immigration policies  undermine the health of Latinx immigrantsOf the  approximately 20 million noncitizens currently living in  the United States, nearly half are "undocumented," which  means they are excluded from many public benefits,  including health care coverage. Additionally, many  authorized immigrants are barred from certain public  benefits, including health benefits, for their first five  years in the United States. These exclusions often lead  many immigrants, particularly those who are Latinx, to  avoid seeking health care out of fear of deportation,  detention, and other immigration enforcement consequences.  Medical Legal Violence tells the stories of some of these  immigrants and how anti-immigrant politics in the United  States increasingly undermine health care for Latinx  noncitizens in ways that deepen health inequalities while  upholding economic exploitation and white  supremacy.Meredith Van Natta provides a first-hand account  of how such immigrants made life and death decisions with  their doctors and other clinic workers before and after the  2016 election. Drawing from rich ethnographic observations  and in-depth interviews in three states during the Trump  presidency, Van Natta demonstrates how anti-immigrant laws  are changing the way Latinx immigrants and their doctors  weigh illness and injury against patients' personal and  family security. The book also evaluates the role of  safety-net health care workers who have helped noncitizen  patients navigate this unstable political landscape despite  perceiving a rise in anti-immigrant surveillance in the  health care spaces where they work. As anti-immigrant  rhetoric intensifies, Medical Legal Violence sheds light on  the real consequences of anti-immigrant laws on the health  of Latinx noncitizens, and how these laws create a  predictable humanitarian disaster in immigrant communities  throughout the country and beyond its borders. Van Natta  asks how things might be different if we begin to learn  from this history rather than continuously repeat it.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1476847},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479807444.001.0001},
}