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Borders, laborers, and racialized medicalization: Mexican immigration and US public health practices in the 20th century

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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.

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  • Molina, N., 2011. "Borders, laborers, and racialized medicalization: Mexican immigration and US public health practices in the 20th century," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 101(6), pages 1024-1031.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2010.300056_0
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.300056
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    1. San Juanita García & Taylor Trummel & Monica Cornejo & Katherine Maldonado & Ana Ojeda & Humberto Flores & Bruce G. Link, 2021. "Immigrant Health Inequities: Exposing Diversions and White Supremacy," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-22, September.

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