Borders of Care
Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Health Care in the United States
by Beatrix Hoffman
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Pub Date Feb 11 2025 | Archive Date Dec 03 2024
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Description
For the roughly ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, federal health care coverage is out of reach. Barred from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act, most rely on hospital emergency rooms when they get sick, or clinics that don’t inquire about immigration status. Further obstacles to health care, including discrimination and the fear of deportation, mean that immigrants, undocumented or not, seek and receive less medical attention than any other population in the country. Yet immigrants haven’t always been ostracized from health care in the United States—providers and activists have for over a century worked to make medical services available to newcomers and migrants, including, at times, the undocumented.
Drawing together stories from diverse communities from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Borders of Care examines how health care in the United States has both included and excluded immigrants. Beatrix Hoffman analyzes both the health and immigration systems, adding to our understanding of why these structures, and the policies that support them, have resisted reform. Moreover, she shows that immigrants, often scapegoated as burdens on the health-care system, have strengthened it through their responses to systemic exclusion. By creating hospitals and clinics, serving as practitioners, fighting for safer workplaces, filing lawsuits, organizing and protesting, immigrants and migrants have improved medical access for everybody and advanced the idea of health care as a universal right. As accessible as it is authoritative, Hoffman’s survey could not be more timely.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780226820866 |
| PRICE | $25.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 288 |
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Featured Reviews
Educator 1511420
The way a society treats it most vulnerable members (which would include immigrants and migrants) will show you their values. Hardly just relegated to the present or the past, adequate healthcare has been rationed or nonexistent for these groups. The pandemic has only shone a brighter light on this division and why it is so important for healthcare to be a right, not a privilege.
Jennifer J, Reviewer
THis book dives into the world of migrants, immigrants, refugees and how do they find medical care within the United States. I had never thought of the subject but WOW, this book does a great job exploring this issue.
The author takes a HUGE history and condenses it to digestible pieces. I loved the formatting of the book, going by time and then putting in as many migrants, immigrants, refugees as possible. It was easy to understand and I loved how the author would say ok the migrants were denied health care so this is what they did about it.
I also liked that the author was preachy. THe author laid out the facts and let the reader decide if it was fair or not.
I learned so many things with this book. Like the Mexican Farm workers had more rights then US workers in regards to Unions and medical care. I had never heard of that before. Of course, then American workers got jealous and ended it.
This is a timely book and went all the way up to the COVID crisis.
Everyone should read this book about migrants, immigrants, and refugees and health care. But more importantly this is an important work on how Americans think WHO should have health care.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who is wondering about immigrants and health care.
