Pathogenic Policing

Immigration Enforcement and Health in the U.S. South

Nolan Kline

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780813595320, 9780813595337
• eBook ISBN: 9780813595344
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Emigration & Immigration
• Index: Social Sciences

The relationship between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement officials continues to be a politically contentious topic in the United States. Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the U.S., and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics, especially how policy can reinforce 'race' as a vehicle of social division. He argues that immigration enforcement policy results in a shadow medical system, shapes immigrants' health and interpersonal relationships, and has health-related impacts that extend beyond immigrants to affecthealth providers, immigrant rights groups, hospitals, and the overall health system. Pathogenic Policing follows current immigrant policing regimes in Georgia and contextualizes contemporary legislation and law enforcement practices against a backdrop of historical forms of political exclusion from health and social services for all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. For anyone concerned about the health of the most vulnerable among us, and those who interact with the overall health safety net, this will be an eye-opening read.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword by Lenore Manderson
• Introduction: “They Will Stop You”
• 1. How Did We Get Here? Immigrant Policing in the United States
• 2. Inside the Statehouse: Legislators’ Perspectives on Georgia’s Immigration Laws
• 3. “We Live Here in Fear”: Policing, Trauma, and a Shadow Medical System
• 4. Immigrant Policing and Interpersonal Relationships
• 5. “A Death by a Thousand Little Cuts”: Health Providers and Immigrant Policing
• 6. Patient Dumping, Immigrant Policing, and Health Policy
• 7. “Stand Up, Fight Back!”
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author