Recent Posts

• Welcome!

• What’s in a name? AP shifts the discourse by eschewing the term “illegal immigrant”

• Immigration Reform and Health Care: Leaving the Undocumented in the Breach – Lori Nessel

• Flouting International Law: Violating the Human Rights of Asylum Seekers, Including Victims of Torture and Human Trafficking, in and en route to Israel – Laurie Lijnders

• Narrowing Our Moral Community of Concern: A Critique of Canada’s New Refugee Policies – Ben Langer

• “Doing No Harm” in an Age of Medical Repatriations: Challenges and Opportunities for Health Professionals – Juliana Morris

• A Mile in Another’s Shoes on the U.S.-Mexico Border: “Being There” as a Form of Solidarity – Rachel Stonecipher

• Conceptions of Reciprocity: The Navarro Transplant Case, Organ Allocation and Undocumented Immigrants – Emily Avera

• AccessDenied post wins 2nd prize in competition for Excellence in Writing to Advance Social Justice

• Fortifying the Boundaries of Deservingness: Israeli Government Steps up Policies of Exclusion towards Irregular Migrants – Nora Gottlieb

• New Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine – “Migration, ‘illegality,’ and health: Mapping embodied vulnerability and debating health-related deservingness”

• New Society for Medical Anthropology “Takes a Stand” Statement on Health Insurance Reform

• Anthropology News piece: “Engaged Critical Medical Anthropology: Five Steps for Influencing Conversations on ‘Illegal’ Im/migration & Health”

• When the Ward is Your Mooring: The Human and Economic Costs of Long-Term Acute Care for Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S. – Nora Kenworthy

• The Psychiatric Hospital as Safe House? Strange Asylum for Undocumented Immigrants with Mental Health Needs – Nora Kenworthy

• Shattered by Security: The Impact of Secure Communities on Families – Rachel Stonecipher

• Why Structural Vulnerability? Why Latino Migrants in the United States? – James Quesada

• AccessDenied blog team commentary published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly: How Can Medical Anthropologists Contribute to Contemporary Conversations on “Illegal” Im/migration and Health?

• Call It a Crisis: Confronting Public Health Risks on the U.S.-Mexico Border – Rachel Stonecipher & Sarah Willen

• S-Comm Immigration Initiative is Bad for our Health – Karen Hacker, Jennifer Kasper, and Juliana Morris

• Marching for One More Penny: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Pickets Publix Supermarkets in Tampa Bay – Nolan Kline

• Benefits vs. Ethics? Re-Assessing Healthcare Access for the Undocumented in France – Stéphanie Larchanché

• Who picked the strawberries you ate for breakfast? “Afflicting the comfortable” as pedagogic strategy – Sarah Willen

• Potential Health Outcomes of Being Undocumented and Homeless – Maggie Sullivan

• Expanding Vulnerability: Health Care, Well-Being, and Arizona’s Immigration Policies – Julie Armin & Robin Reineke

• Anticipating the Consequences of Arizona’s SB 1070: A Comparative Perspective from Germany, where Racial Profiling is Business as Usual – Susann Huschke

• The Unsung Heroes of Workplace Safety – Cheryl Staats

• Access Not Denied? The Role Localities Can Play – Helen B. Marrow

• The International Violence Against Women Act of 2010 (I-VAWA) and Undocumented Immigrants in the United States – Nia Parson

• Two Reforms, One Day, One Broad Message: March 21st, 2010 and the Struggles for Immigration and Health Care Reform – Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz

• News Round-Up (2/27/10) – Nolan Kline

• News Round-Up (2/3/10) – Jessica Mulligan

• What do Haitian Earthquake Survivors and the Super Bowl Have in Common? – Heide Castañeda

• Chutes and Ladders: Comprehensive Immigration Reform and Health Care Access for Undocumented Workers – Elizabeth Cartwright

• News Round-Up (1/10/10) – The Dangers of Detention: Illness and Death in U.S. Custody - Sarah Willen

• News Round-Up (12/23/09) – Unspeakable Exclusion: Immigration and the Politics of U.S. Health Care Reform - Sarah Willen & Nolan Kline

• Medical Deportation: Outsourcing “Removal” to Private Hospitals – Luis F.B. Plascencia
  

• News Round-Up (12/5/09) – Sarah Willen

• Illegal Immigrants as the Last Frontier of Welfare – Didier Fassin

• Health Care Reform Is Intimately Linked to Immigration Reform – Peter Guarnaccia

• “You Lie!”: Going Beyond the Obama-Wilson Debate – Josiah Heyman

• Immigrant Health: Shamans, ‘Soul Calling’ and the Uninsured – Jennifer Hirsch & Emily Vasquez