C Heckert
Biographic Data
| ID | 24901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Heckert |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Heckert |
| SIGNATURE | HECKERT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3344-6968 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Building walls around the safety net
Drawing from ethnographic work with women utilizing publicly funded prenatal care in El Paso, Texas, this paper considers how bureaucratic mechanisms lead to systematic exclusion of US citizens and legal permanent residents from health services for which they would appear to qualify under Texas's Medicaid for Pregnant Women. This bureaucratic exclusion contributes to cross-border utilization of health services, with the Mexican health sector func…
Navigating the Bureaucratic Dimensions of Reproductive Violence on the US‐Mexico Border During the Covid‐19 Public Health Emergency
Medicaid for Pregnant Women is an important safety net program that covers nearly half of all births in Texas, the second most populous state in the United States. This article explores the bureaucratic mechanisms of exclusion from coverage under Medicaid for Pregnant Women for Latinas in the Texas–Mexico border region. It gives particular attention to exclusion during the COVID‐19 public health emergency, when federal policy prevented states fro…
Stratified Access and Experiences of Maternal Health Care in the United States‐Mexico Border Region
Introduction The United States (US) state of Texas uses two publicly funded programs to cover pregnant people—Medicaid for Pregnant Women and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Perinatal. While Medicaid offers more comprehensive coverage than CHIP Perinatal, it only includes US citizens and legally qualified residents. This tiered access to care, determined primarily by immigration status, generates stratified access. This paper explores …
Recalibrating the Scales
Case Studies of Intimate Partner Violence, Immigration-Related Stress, and Legal Violence During Pregnancy in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
This article explores how experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) combined with immigration-related stress shaped pregnancy and postnatal experiences among two immigrant women in the U.S.-Mexico border region of El Paso, TX. Enactment of U.S. immigration policies was changing rapidly during the period of data collection (2018–2019), generating a heightened sense of immigration-related insecurities for research participants. This context br…
The Bureaucratic Violence of the Health Care System for Pregnant Immigrants on the United States-Mexico Border
Using the concept bureaucratic violence, this article explores how health care bureaucracy contributes to harm for pregnant immigrants on the United States-Mexico border. The term bureaucratic violence captures how even when laws and health policies are not targeting a specific group, bureaucracy can do this work instead, causing systematic harm. Prenatal care in the United States captures this dynamic. In many states, prenatal coverage is availa…
Emotional Pathways of Embodied Health Vulnerability
This article draws on interviews with pregnant and postnatal first- and second-generation immigrant women in the US-Mexico border region to explore the relationship among immigration-related concerns, emotional distress, and birth outcomes. Maternal stress is associated with a range of maternal and infant health complications, making it important to understand how immigration-related apprehensions shape the emotional experience of pregnancy. In a…
Syndemics in Symbiotic Cities
Public health in border regions is a central concern to researchers and policymakers. This article demonstrates how and why syndemics theory should be central to border health research agendas and the development of health policy. A syndemic describes the concentration and deleterious interaction of two or more health conditions in a population. However, syndemic theory is not only about disease pathology. Another central tenant of syndemic theor…
Travesti Subjectivity and HIV Care
Este articulo analiza las experiencias de ex-travestis en Bolivian que dejaron su identidad travesti en favor de retornar a la vida de un hombre. Se concentra primeramente en la historia de la vida de José Luis-Natalia, y en menor grado, dos otras ex-travestis. Explorando el tema de porque una travesti decidiría ser hombre otra vez se revela que las experiences del cuidado del VIH tiene una influencia en la subjetividad de genero, porque el cuida…
Ethnographic reflections on communicative inequities, global health relationships, and two decades of HIV in the Bolivian press
This article draws on two decades of media representations of HIV, ethnographic research among people living with HIV, and an analysis of global health programms in Bolivia. In doing so, we chart the evolution of media representations in relation to the global health context and the implications of these representations for people living with HIV. Our overarching argument is that media discourses on HIV in Bolivia have consistently been produced …
BlamingMachismo
Drawing from an ethnography of HIV care in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in this article I explore how the social imaginary surrounding gender relations shapes men's experiences of seeking care for and living with HIV. Popular understandings of gender relations, which draw heavily on the machismo concept, intersect with a global health master narrative that frames women as victims in the AIDS epidemic in a way that generates a strong sentiment of blaming …
When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture”
The Golden Cage
Women's narratives show how ontological insecurity is produced throughout the on-going process that is undocumented/precariously documented migration from Mexico to the United States. This embodied sense of insecurity emerges at the nexus of intimate partner violence and the lack of a secure form of biopolitical personhood after crossing the border. Women's narratives show how biopolitical insecurities are present in familial interactions. In a s…
Latina immigrants in rural western Pennsylvania and use of mental health resources when coping with depression
This paper addresses the availability and use of mental health resources by Latina immigrants in rural western Pennsylvania. Findings suggest that few formal (i.e. counselors) or informal (i.e. religious figures) culturally sensitive resources for coping with depression are available to Latina immigrants in this area. When resources were available, informants often expressed a preference for seeking help from informal sources and many experienced…
SP5-7 Fatal accidents at work
Information on fatal work injuries (FWI) are unreliable in Brazil. The Information System of the Ministry of Social Security, fed by Work Accident Communications (WAC), covers only work accidents (WA) over formal labour, governed by the Consolidation of Labour Laws. To collect data of major injuries (accidents and diseases) related to work, the Ministry of Health established an Information System for Notifiable Diseases (SINAN NET). Notification …
Emotional Pathways of Embodied Health Vulnerability
This article draws on interviews with pregnant and postnatal first- and second-generation immigrant women in the US-Mexico border region to explore the relationship among immigration-related concerns, emotional distress, and birth outcomes. Maternal stress is associated with a range of maternal and infant health complications, making it important to understand how immigration-related apprehensions shape the emotional experience of pregnancy. In a…
Travesti Subjectivity and HIV Care
Este articulo analiza las experiencias de ex-travestis en Bolivian que dejaron su identidad travesti en favor de retornar a la vida de un hombre. Se concentra primeramente en la historia de la vida de José Luis-Natalia, y en menor grado, dos otras ex-travestis. Explorando el tema de porque una travesti decidiría ser hombre otra vez se revela que las experiences del cuidado del VIH tiene una influencia en la subjetividad de genero, porque el cuida…
Navigating the Bureaucratic Dimensions of Reproductive Violence on the US‐Mexico Border During the Covid‐19 Public Health Emergency
Medicaid for Pregnant Women is an important safety net program that covers nearly half of all births in Texas, the second most populous state in the United States. This article explores the bureaucratic mechanisms of exclusion from coverage under Medicaid for Pregnant Women for Latinas in the Texas–Mexico border region. It gives particular attention to exclusion during the COVID‐19 public health emergency, when federal policy prevented states fro…
Stratified Access and Experiences of Maternal Health Care in the United States‐Mexico Border Region
Introduction The United States (US) state of Texas uses two publicly funded programs to cover pregnant people—Medicaid for Pregnant Women and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Perinatal. While Medicaid offers more comprehensive coverage than CHIP Perinatal, it only includes US citizens and legally qualified residents. This tiered access to care, determined primarily by immigration status, generates stratified access. This paper explores …
Syndemics in Symbiotic Cities
Public health in border regions is a central concern to researchers and policymakers. This article demonstrates how and why syndemics theory should be central to border health research agendas and the development of health policy. A syndemic describes the concentration and deleterious interaction of two or more health conditions in a population. However, syndemic theory is not only about disease pathology. Another central tenant of syndemic theor…
BlamingMachismo
Drawing from an ethnography of HIV care in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in this article I explore how the social imaginary surrounding gender relations shapes men's experiences of seeking care for and living with HIV. Popular understandings of gender relations, which draw heavily on the machismo concept, intersect with a global health master narrative that frames women as victims in the AIDS epidemic in a way that generates a strong sentiment of blaming …
Latina immigrants in rural western Pennsylvania and use of mental health resources when coping with depression
This paper addresses the availability and use of mental health resources by Latina immigrants in rural western Pennsylvania. Findings suggest that few formal (i.e. counselors) or informal (i.e. religious figures) culturally sensitive resources for coping with depression are available to Latina immigrants in this area. When resources were available, informants often expressed a preference for seeking help from informal sources and many experienced…
Latina immigrants in rural western Pennsylvania and use of mental health resources when coping with depression
This paper addresses the availability and use of mental health resources by Latina immigrants in rural western Pennsylvania. Findings suggest that few formal (i.e. counselors) or informal (i.e. religious figures) culturally sensitive resources for coping with depression are available to Latina immigrants in this area. When resources were available, informants often expressed a preference for seeking help from informal sources and many experienced…
SP5-7 Fatal accidents at work
Information on fatal work injuries (FWI) are unreliable in Brazil. The Information System of the Ministry of Social Security, fed by Work Accident Communications (WAC), covers only work accidents (WA) over formal labour, governed by the Consolidation of Labour Laws. To collect data of major injuries (accidents and diseases) related to work, the Ministry of Health established an Information System for Notifiable Diseases (SINAN NET). Notification …
The Golden Cage
Women's narratives show how ontological insecurity is produced throughout the on-going process that is undocumented/precariously documented migration from Mexico to the United States. This embodied sense of insecurity emerges at the nexus of intimate partner violence and the lack of a secure form of biopolitical personhood after crossing the border. Women's narratives show how biopolitical insecurities are present in familial interactions. In a s…
When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture”
BlamingMachismo
Drawing from an ethnography of HIV care in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in this article I explore how the social imaginary surrounding gender relations shapes men's experiences of seeking care for and living with HIV. Popular understandings of gender relations, which draw heavily on the machismo concept, intersect with a global health master narrative that frames women as victims in the AIDS epidemic in a way that generates a strong sentiment of blaming …
Ethnographic reflections on communicative inequities, global health relationships, and two decades of HIV in the Bolivian press
This article draws on two decades of media representations of HIV, ethnographic research among people living with HIV, and an analysis of global health programms in Bolivia. In doing so, we chart the evolution of media representations in relation to the global health context and the implications of these representations for people living with HIV. Our overarching argument is that media discourses on HIV in Bolivia have consistently been produced …
Syndemics in Symbiotic Cities
Public health in border regions is a central concern to researchers and policymakers. This article demonstrates how and why syndemics theory should be central to border health research agendas and the development of health policy. A syndemic describes the concentration and deleterious interaction of two or more health conditions in a population. However, syndemic theory is not only about disease pathology. Another central tenant of syndemic theor…
Travesti Subjectivity and HIV Care
Este articulo analiza las experiencias de ex-travestis en Bolivian que dejaron su identidad travesti en favor de retornar a la vida de un hombre. Se concentra primeramente en la historia de la vida de José Luis-Natalia, y en menor grado, dos otras ex-travestis. Explorando el tema de porque una travesti decidiría ser hombre otra vez se revela que las experiences del cuidado del VIH tiene una influencia en la subjetividad de genero, porque el cuida…
The Bureaucratic Violence of the Health Care System for Pregnant Immigrants on the United States-Mexico Border
Using the concept bureaucratic violence, this article explores how health care bureaucracy contributes to harm for pregnant immigrants on the United States-Mexico border. The term bureaucratic violence captures how even when laws and health policies are not targeting a specific group, bureaucracy can do this work instead, causing systematic harm. Prenatal care in the United States captures this dynamic. In many states, prenatal coverage is availa…
Emotional Pathways of Embodied Health Vulnerability
This article draws on interviews with pregnant and postnatal first- and second-generation immigrant women in the US-Mexico border region to explore the relationship among immigration-related concerns, emotional distress, and birth outcomes. Maternal stress is associated with a range of maternal and infant health complications, making it important to understand how immigration-related apprehensions shape the emotional experience of pregnancy. In a…
Case Studies of Intimate Partner Violence, Immigration-Related Stress, and Legal Violence During Pregnancy in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
This article explores how experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) combined with immigration-related stress shaped pregnancy and postnatal experiences among two immigrant women in the U.S.-Mexico border region of El Paso, TX. Enactment of U.S. immigration policies was changing rapidly during the period of data collection (2018–2019), generating a heightened sense of immigration-related insecurities for research participants. This context br…
Recalibrating the Scales
Building walls around the safety net
Drawing from ethnographic work with women utilizing publicly funded prenatal care in El Paso, Texas, this paper considers how bureaucratic mechanisms lead to systematic exclusion of US citizens and legal permanent residents from health services for which they would appear to qualify under Texas's Medicaid for Pregnant Women. This bureaucratic exclusion contributes to cross-border utilization of health services, with the Mexican health sector func…
Navigating the Bureaucratic Dimensions of Reproductive Violence on the US‐Mexico Border During the Covid‐19 Public Health Emergency
Medicaid for Pregnant Women is an important safety net program that covers nearly half of all births in Texas, the second most populous state in the United States. This article explores the bureaucratic mechanisms of exclusion from coverage under Medicaid for Pregnant Women for Latinas in the Texas–Mexico border region. It gives particular attention to exclusion during the COVID‐19 public health emergency, when federal policy prevented states fro…
Stratified Access and Experiences of Maternal Health Care in the United States‐Mexico Border Region
Introduction The United States (US) state of Texas uses two publicly funded programs to cover pregnant people—Medicaid for Pregnant Women and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Perinatal. While Medicaid offers more comprehensive coverage than CHIP Perinatal, it only includes US citizens and legally qualified residents. This tiered access to care, determined primarily by immigration status, generates stratified access. This paper explores …
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (9 works) · Geography (6 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Health care (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)