Borders, Laborers, and Racialized Medicalization Mexican Immigration and US Public Health Practices in the 20th Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8120975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natalia Molina (0000-0002-3578-316X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1024-1031 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2010.300056 |
| PMID | 21493932 |
| PMCID | PMC3093266 |
| OpenAlex | W2008216431 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
Throughout the 20th century, US public health and immigration policies intersected with and informed one another in the country's response to Mexican immigration. Three historical episodes illustrate how perceived racial differences influenced disease diagnosis: a 1916 typhus outbreak, the midcentury Bracero Program, and medical deportations that are taking place today. Disease, or just the threat of it, marked Mexicans as foreign, just as much as phenotype, native language, accent, or clothing. A focus on race rendered other factors and structures, such as poor working conditions or structural inequalities in health care, invisible. This attitude had long-term effects on immigration policy, as well as on how Mexicans were received in the United States
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Immigration · Immigration policy · Inequality · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Medicalization · Pandemic · Political science · Psychiatry · Public health · Racism · Sociology · Stress (linguistics · Latin American and Latino Studies · Medicine · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Nursing · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Gender Studies · Gerontology · Law
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Historical and Contemporary Reproductive Injustices at the Border and Beyond
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Immigrant Health Inequities
Familial Vulnerability
Skilling Me Softly
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |