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“They Look At Us Like Parasites”: The Corporeal Stigmatization and Pathologization of Deportees in Tijuana, Mexico

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
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Suicide rates of migrants in United States immigration detention (2010-2020). [PDF]

AIMS Public Health, 2021
Erfani P, Chin ET, Lee CH, Uppal N, Peeler KR.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The psychiatric fix

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
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Straddling “The Gulf Between Medicine and Law”: Medico‐legal addiction and Japanese psychiatry

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Increasing punitive drug regulations in Japan amplify longstanding tensions within psychiatric practice, pushing psychiatrists to balance clinical obligations with complex socio‐legal demands. This article analyzes how psychiatrists specializing in illicit substance use disorders to navigate escalating criminalization by developing diagnostic ...
Selim Gokce Atici
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Health of children in Australian immigration detention centres: An analysis of the quarterly health reports from 2014 to 2017. [PDF]

J Paediatr Child Health, 2022
Essex R, Kalocsányiová E, Scott JG, Pacella R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Buprenorphine doesn't hold me”: Neurochemical afterlives of state violence and the struggle for meaning in addiction treatment

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyzes two disparate experiences of buprenorphine, a medication for opioid addiction, in California. Within the context of the U.S. War on Drugs and after decades of criminalization, buprenorphine represents a shift toward outpatient medical treatment of opioid addiction, but it has been unequally distributed and experienced ...
Lauren Textor
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The pathogenicity of immigration detention: a systemic conflict between medical ethics and harmful migration policies. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Eur
Cocco N, Marchese V, Nicoli F, Russo G, Testa J, Corsaro A, Mazzetti M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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Trends in Sexual Assault Against Detainees in US Immigration Detention Centers, 2018-2022.

JAMA, 2023
Lue N, Nwadiuko J, Parmar P, Zeidan A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Oscillating Whiteness: A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Transnational Ethno‐Racial Privilege

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances oscillating whiteness as a conceptual framework for analysing ethno‐racial privilege across geopolitical settings. The framework theorizes whiteness as a dynamic resource governed by four mechanisms: recognition (how bodies are classified as white), performativity (how whiteness is enacted through cultural scripts ...
Reza Hasmath
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