(De)Racializing Refugee Medicine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Munyikwa (0000-0003-0794-1754, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 829-847 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243920905014 |
| OpenAlex | W3004465275 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 21 |
Based on ethnographic research within refugee-serving institutions in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), this paper examines the relationship between physicians and the knowledge they produce and consume about caring for refugees from around the world. I explore the "seething presence" of race in refugee medicine, a domain of medical practice whose entanglement with racial ideology and practice has been underexamined. I consider how knowledge about refugees from different groups-whether racially laden designations like "Asian" or "African" or national markers like Congolese or Burmese-circulates in clinical spaces as health-care teams diagnose and treat refugees using standards of "evidence-based" medicine. Assessing the primary literatures that refugee health-care providers use to justify varying care plans, I argue that race, while often unmentioned, structures the practice of refugee medicine. Additionally, the implicit use of race as an analytic, not racism or economic injustice, often disguises the impact of structural racism and inequality in refugee health disparities. I end with some reflections on how we might conduct a more just practice of refugee health care-and by extension, health care more generally-by shifting our gaze from the particularities of seemingly obvious cultural difference to social structure
Criminology · Health care · Ideology · Injustice · Political science · Politics · Racism · Refugee · Sociology · Cultural Competency in Health Care · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Postcolonial Disorders
Blood pressure measuring devices
Taking race out of human genetics
Ghostly Matters
Toward a Critical Refugee Study
Racial Formation in the United States
Medicating Race
People's Science
Racism Without Racists
Posthumanist Performativity
The state construction of affect
How race becomes biology
Technologies of Belonging
Migrants in Translation
The Language of "Race" and Prejudice
Beyond Fact or Fiction
Colonial Hauntings
Innovating inequity
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |