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Melo, Milena Andrea.

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

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Enacting Life: Dialysis among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands./
Author:	Melo, Milena Andrea.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	175 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01A(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10619059
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. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 175 p.

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

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2017.

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.

ISBN: 9780355167252Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

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