Embodied Politics : : Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency, and Health Promotion in California / / Rebecca J. Hester.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Hester, Rebecca J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Project (IHP), a culturally and linguistically competent initiative that uses health workshops, health messages, and social programs to mitigate the structural vulnerability of Oaxacan migrants in California. Embodied Politics reconstructs how this initiative came to exist and describes how it operates. At the same time, it points out the conflicts, resistances, and counter-acts that emerge through the IHP’s attempts to guide the health behaviors and practices of Triqui and Mixteco migrants. Arguing for a structurally competent approach to migrant health, Embodied Politics shows how efforts to promote indigenous health may actually reinforce the same social and political economic forces, namely structural racism and neoliberalism, that are undermining the health of indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico and the United States.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Paradoxical Politics of Health Promotion -- Chapter 2. Structural Violence, Migrant Activism, and Indigenous Health -- Chapter 3. The “Mexican Model” of Health: Examining the Travels and Translations of Health Promotion -- Chapter 4. Números, Números, Números: Making Health Programs Accountable -- Chapter 5. Cultural Sensitivity Training and the Cultural Politics of Teaching Tolerance -- Chapter 6. La Lucha Sigue: Migrant Activism and the Ongoing Struggle to Promote Indigenous Health -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author