This special issue, composed of 19 articles, discusses the issues and challenges associated
with migration and immigration, illegalization, and health. The articles are grouped into 2 …

“My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward. And I
can't do anything about it.”–Esperanza Over two million of the nation's eleven million …

In a major contribution to the study of diabetes, this book is the first to analyze the disease
through a syndemic framework. An innovative, mixed-methods study, Emily Mendenhall …

This study identifies undocumented immigrants' obstacles to realizing their health care rights
in France. The ethnographic fieldwork informing this study was carried out in Paris from …

Do unauthorized im/migrants have a right to health? Do they deserve health care, or health
protection, or access to the social determinants of good health? Are they party to prevailing …

The aim of this study was to explore undocumented migrant women's subjective
experiences of their health conditions and access to health care. The study is based on eight …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on
the ways that food insecurity prevails in women's experiences of migration from Mexico and …

Does an undocumented immigration status predict the use of medical services? To explore
this question, this paper examines medical care utilization of undocumented Latino …

This paper utilizes eighteen months of ethnographic and interview research undertaken in
2003 and 2004 as well as follow-up fieldwork from 2005 to 2007 to explore the sociocultural …

The Canadian government's recent cuts to healthcare coverage for refugee claimants has
rekindled the debate in Canada about what medical services should be provided to …