Landscapes of Care : : Immigration and Health in Rural America / / Thurka Sangaramoorthy.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | California : : University of North Carolina Press,, 2023. ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 pages) |
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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.