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Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform
Lisa Sun-Hee Park
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Description for Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform
Paperback. Investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 213 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JKSB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a “public charge,” or a burden upon the State, the author shows how the concept has been revived as states adopt punitive policies targeting immigrants of color and require them to “pay back” benefits for which they are legally eligible during a time of intense debate regarding welfare reform.
Park argues that the notions of “public charge” and “public burden” were reinvigorated in the 1990s to target immigrant women of reproductive ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
Series
Nation of Nations
Number of Pages
213
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814768020
SKU
V9780814768020
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99-50
About Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Lisa Sun-Hee Park is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform as well as co-author of The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy and The Slums ... Read more
Reviews for Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform
Informative and interesting...the book could not be timelier.
Marylin Aguirre-Molina
Health Affairs
Recommended [for] all levels/libraries.
CHOICE
Marylin Aguirre-Molina
Health Affairs
Recommended [for] all levels/libraries.
CHOICE