James Quesada
Biographic Data
| ID | 116739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Quesada |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Quesada |
| SIGNATURE | QUESADA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4307-1963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 634 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Impact of Insider Researcher Trainees in Recruiting and Retaining Latinx in an Outdoor Health Promotion Research Study
Latinx represent the second largest ethnic group in the USA and remain significantly underrepresented in research studies. Efforts to better include Latinx make use of community-engaged research (CEnR) approaches, peer-navigators, and cultural humility training for research teams. While these efforts have led to slight increases in Latinx participation, studies to identify strategic practices for better inclusion of Latinx participants are needed…
How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity With Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border
Migrants along the US-Mexico border have been subjected to transnational violence created by international policy, militaristic intervention, and multinational organizational administration of border operations. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded migrants' vulnerabilities and provoked several logistical and ethical problems for US-based clinicians and organizations. This commentary examines how the concept of transnational solidarity facilitates an…
Structural vulnerability
Based on the authors’ work in Latin America and Africa, this article describes and applies the concept ‘structural vulnerability’ to the challenges of clinical care and healthcare advocacy for migrants. This concept helps consider how specific social, economic and political hierarchies and policies produce and pattern poor health in two case studies: one at the USA–Mexico border and another in Djibouti. Migrants’ and providers’ various entangleme…
Suffering Child
La vulnerabilidad estructural y las nuevas perspectivas en medicina social sobre la salud de los migrantes
A decade ago, a number of English-speaking authors focused mainly on the analysis and intervention of processes of social determination of health of migrants developed the concept of structural vulnerability as a way to combat individualism, biologism, the invisibilization of processes of structural determination and the blaming of victims. As part of the historical contributions of social medicine, the current developments of the structural vuln…
Structural Vulnerability
The authors propose reinvigorating and extending the traditional social history beyond its narrow range of risk behaviors to enable clinicians to address negative health outcomes imposed by social determinants of health. In this Perspective, they outline a novel, practical medical vulnerability assessment questionnaire that operationalizes for clinical practice the social science concept of “structural vulnerability.” A structural vulnerability a…
Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health
Although immigration and immigrant populations have become increasingly important foci in public health research and practice, a social determinants of health approach has seldom been applied in this area. Global patterns of morbidity and mortality follow inequities rooted in societal, political, and economic conditions produced and reproduced by social structures, policies, and institutions. The lack of dialogue between these two profoundly rela…
As Good As It Gets
Undocumented Latino day laborers in the United States are vulnerable to being arrested and expelled at any time. This social fact shapes their everyday lives in terms of actions taken and strategies deployed to mitigate being confronted, profiled, and possibly incarcerated and deported. While perceptions of threat and bouts of discrimination are routine among undocumented Latino day laborers, their specific nature vary according to multiple socia…
Sexual health of Latino migrant day labourers under conditions of structural vulnerability
The purpose of this paper is to explore the context of the sexual health of Latino migrant day labourers in the USA, challenges to sexual health and ways of coping, with attention to conditions of structural vulnerability permeating the lives of this unique Latino population. Given the limited information about this topic and population, ethnographic research employing in-depth semi-structured interviews with 51 labourers, recruited through purpo…
Special Issue Part II
No Soy Welferero
California urban and agricultural centers rely heavily on Latino migrant laborers, regardless of their legal documented status. In the delivery of social services, and in the mass media, popular consciousness, and formal legal understandings and arrangements, Latino laborers are viewed as either legitimate voluntary low-wage workers or illegitimate undocumented workers not entitled to the same civil rights as US citizens. Their de facto second-cl…
Structural Vulnerability and Health
Latino immigrants in the United States constitute a paradigmatic case of a population group subject to structural violence. Their subordinated location in the global economy and their culturally depreciated status in the United States are exacerbated by legal persecution. Medical Anthropology, Volume 30, Numbers 4 and 5, include a series of ethnographic analyses of the processes that render undocumented Latino immigrants structurally vulnerable t…
A Note on The Political Idea of "Latino" in American Life
A Note on The Political Idea of "Latino" in American Life Niccolo Caldararo and James Quesada The use of terms of race or ethnicity can be precise or general given the social context of conversation. In recent years, the use of the term "Latino" has exploded into a racial, political and ethnic category that covers such a vast number of contradictory traits and elements of group membership that it enrages some as much as it emboldens others. The p…
Violence in War and Peace
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
From Central American Warriors to San Francisco Latino Day Laborers
Many Central American day laborers seeking work in San Francisco, California are here mainly as a result of past and present political, economic, and military US policies practiced throughout the Central American region. However, this social fact, largely unacknowledged throughout the body politic in the United States, neither explains their current status nor detracts from coercive social and state efforts to demonize and exclude them. Instead, …
Suffering Child
This article considers how the ripple effects of war and its aftermath are embodied and lived even after being mediated by time, space, and social status. Through a case study of a Nicaraguan boy and his natal family, I argue that the legacy of war, structural violence, and endemic poverty are chronic and lingering and emerge from internationally and locally produced traumatogenic social relations. I use a phenomenological approach to distress to…
Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse
Journal Article Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse: Confronting HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Addicts in San Francisco Get access Philippe Bourgois, Philippe Bourgois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Mark Lettiere, Mark Lettiere Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar James Quesada James Quesada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Structural Vulnerability and Health
Latino immigrants in the United States constitute a paradigmatic case of a population group subject to structural violence. Their subordinated location in the global economy and their culturally depreciated status in the United States are exacerbated by legal persecution. Medical Anthropology, Volume 30, Numbers 4 and 5, include a series of ethnographic analyses of the processes that render undocumented Latino immigrants structurally vulnerable t…
Violence in War and Peace
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse
Journal Article Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse: Confronting HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Addicts in San Francisco Get access Philippe Bourgois, Philippe Bourgois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Mark Lettiere, Mark Lettiere Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar James Quesada James Quesada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
No Soy Welferero
California urban and agricultural centers rely heavily on Latino migrant laborers, regardless of their legal documented status. In the delivery of social services, and in the mass media, popular consciousness, and formal legal understandings and arrangements, Latino laborers are viewed as either legitimate voluntary low-wage workers or illegitimate undocumented workers not entitled to the same civil rights as US citizens. Their de facto second-cl…
Suffering Child
This article considers how the ripple effects of war and its aftermath are embodied and lived even after being mediated by time, space, and social status. Through a case study of a Nicaraguan boy and his natal family, I argue that the legacy of war, structural violence, and endemic poverty are chronic and lingering and emerge from internationally and locally produced traumatogenic social relations. I use a phenomenological approach to distress to…
Special Issue Part II
As Good As It Gets
Undocumented Latino day laborers in the United States are vulnerable to being arrested and expelled at any time. This social fact shapes their everyday lives in terms of actions taken and strategies deployed to mitigate being confronted, profiled, and possibly incarcerated and deported. While perceptions of threat and bouts of discrimination are routine among undocumented Latino day laborers, their specific nature vary according to multiple socia…
From Central American Warriors to San Francisco Latino Day Laborers
Many Central American day laborers seeking work in San Francisco, California are here mainly as a result of past and present political, economic, and military US policies practiced throughout the Central American region. However, this social fact, largely unacknowledged throughout the body politic in the United States, neither explains their current status nor detracts from coercive social and state efforts to demonize and exclude them. Instead, …
Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse
Journal Article Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse: Confronting HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Addicts in San Francisco Get access Philippe Bourgois, Philippe Bourgois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Mark Lettiere, Mark Lettiere Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar James Quesada James Quesada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Suffering Child
This article considers how the ripple effects of war and its aftermath are embodied and lived even after being mediated by time, space, and social status. Through a case study of a Nicaraguan boy and his natal family, I argue that the legacy of war, structural violence, and endemic poverty are chronic and lingering and emerge from internationally and locally produced traumatogenic social relations. I use a phenomenological approach to distress to…
From Central American Warriors to San Francisco Latino Day Laborers
Many Central American day laborers seeking work in San Francisco, California are here mainly as a result of past and present political, economic, and military US policies practiced throughout the Central American region. However, this social fact, largely unacknowledged throughout the body politic in the United States, neither explains their current status nor detracts from coercive social and state efforts to demonize and exclude them. Instead, …
Violence in War and Peace
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
A Note on The Political Idea of "Latino" in American Life
A Note on The Political Idea of "Latino" in American Life Niccolo Caldararo and James Quesada The use of terms of race or ethnicity can be precise or general given the social context of conversation. In recent years, the use of the term "Latino" has exploded into a racial, political and ethnic category that covers such a vast number of contradictory traits and elements of group membership that it enrages some as much as it emboldens others. The p…
No Soy Welferero
California urban and agricultural centers rely heavily on Latino migrant laborers, regardless of their legal documented status. In the delivery of social services, and in the mass media, popular consciousness, and formal legal understandings and arrangements, Latino laborers are viewed as either legitimate voluntary low-wage workers or illegitimate undocumented workers not entitled to the same civil rights as US citizens. Their de facto second-cl…
Structural Vulnerability and Health
Latino immigrants in the United States constitute a paradigmatic case of a population group subject to structural violence. Their subordinated location in the global economy and their culturally depreciated status in the United States are exacerbated by legal persecution. Medical Anthropology, Volume 30, Numbers 4 and 5, include a series of ethnographic analyses of the processes that render undocumented Latino immigrants structurally vulnerable t…
Special Issue Part II
Sexual health of Latino migrant day labourers under conditions of structural vulnerability
The purpose of this paper is to explore the context of the sexual health of Latino migrant day labourers in the USA, challenges to sexual health and ways of coping, with attention to conditions of structural vulnerability permeating the lives of this unique Latino population. Given the limited information about this topic and population, ethnographic research employing in-depth semi-structured interviews with 51 labourers, recruited through purpo…
As Good As It Gets
Undocumented Latino day laborers in the United States are vulnerable to being arrested and expelled at any time. This social fact shapes their everyday lives in terms of actions taken and strategies deployed to mitigate being confronted, profiled, and possibly incarcerated and deported. While perceptions of threat and bouts of discrimination are routine among undocumented Latino day laborers, their specific nature vary according to multiple socia…
Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health
Although immigration and immigrant populations have become increasingly important foci in public health research and practice, a social determinants of health approach has seldom been applied in this area. Global patterns of morbidity and mortality follow inequities rooted in societal, political, and economic conditions produced and reproduced by social structures, policies, and institutions. The lack of dialogue between these two profoundly rela…
Structural Vulnerability
The authors propose reinvigorating and extending the traditional social history beyond its narrow range of risk behaviors to enable clinicians to address negative health outcomes imposed by social determinants of health. In this Perspective, they outline a novel, practical medical vulnerability assessment questionnaire that operationalizes for clinical practice the social science concept of “structural vulnerability.” A structural vulnerability a…
Suffering Child
La vulnerabilidad estructural y las nuevas perspectivas en medicina social sobre la salud de los migrantes
A decade ago, a number of English-speaking authors focused mainly on the analysis and intervention of processes of social determination of health of migrants developed the concept of structural vulnerability as a way to combat individualism, biologism, the invisibilization of processes of structural determination and the blaming of victims. As part of the historical contributions of social medicine, the current developments of the structural vuln…
Structural vulnerability
Based on the authors’ work in Latin America and Africa, this article describes and applies the concept ‘structural vulnerability’ to the challenges of clinical care and healthcare advocacy for migrants. This concept helps consider how specific social, economic and political hierarchies and policies produce and pattern poor health in two case studies: one at the USA–Mexico border and another in Djibouti. Migrants’ and providers’ various entangleme…
How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity With Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border
Migrants along the US-Mexico border have been subjected to transnational violence created by international policy, militaristic intervention, and multinational organizational administration of border operations. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded migrants' vulnerabilities and provoked several logistical and ethical problems for US-based clinicians and organizations. This commentary examines how the concept of transnational solidarity facilitates an…
The Impact of Insider Researcher Trainees in Recruiting and Retaining Latinx in an Outdoor Health Promotion Research Study
Latinx represent the second largest ethnic group in the USA and remain significantly underrepresented in research studies. Efforts to better include Latinx make use of community-engaged research (CEnR) approaches, peer-navigators, and cultural humility training for research teams. While these efforts have led to slight increases in Latinx participation, studies to identify strategic practices for better inclusion of Latinx participants are needed…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works)