SOCI 440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Participant Observation, Transnationalism
9 Oct 2018
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Health and immigrants: pdf article: establishes the scope of immigration, methodology- participant observation, interviews in waiting rooms. Cultural/linguistic barriers lack of english fluency and cultural difference can create impassable barriers. By law, hospitals and community clinics must provide medical translation. Fear- fear of detection and deportation avoid clinics and hospitals out of concerns. Ice has conducted numerous raids i(cid:374) i(cid:373)(cid:373)igra(cid:374)ts" co(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ities a(cid:374)d deporting thousands: systemic contradictions- the economy continues to source its needs for unskilled labor in poorer countries, particularly mexico. Obesity, hypertension, and diabetes are reported by the clinicians to have reached epidemic proportions. Infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and aids also go undetected. Left untreated, chronic conditions lead to life threatening episodes that land patients in emergency rooms: coping strategies informal service providers, medical transnationalism immigrants go back home in order to get treated.
