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Enacting Life : = Dialysis among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Enacting Life :/
Reminder of title:	Dialysis among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.
Author:	Melo, Milena Andrea.
Description:	1 online resource (175 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01A(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355167252

Enacting Life : = Dialysis among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.
Melo, Milena Andrea.

Enacting Life :Dialysis among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. - 1 online resource (175 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

Federal policy classifies undocumented immigrants in the United States as ineligible for the majority of publicly funded healthcare services by virtue of their "illegal" status. As a result, those with chronic, debilitating illnesses struggle to find adequate treatment for severe conditions. In this dissertation, I examine the treatment experiences of undocumented Mexican immigrants who suffer from end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in South Texas. Utilizing over two years of fieldwork including participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and case studies with 42 healthcare professionals and 100 Mexican-born dialysis patients (50 undocumented and 50 documented), I employ dialysis as an extreme case study demonstrating the detrimental and fatal consequences that occur when access to care is restricted or denied based on citizenship and legal immigration status.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355167252Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179959
Cultural anthropology.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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