Immigration and Health in Rural Maryland

Join the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future for the next talk in the Global Health Politics Workshop series by Thurka Sangaramoorthy (Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, American University) titled "Immigration and Health in Rural Maryland." Since 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy’s work highlights the fact that the corporatization of health care delivery and immigration policies are deeply connected in rural America. Drawing from fieldwork that centers on Maryland’s sparsely populated Eastern Shore, she shows how longstanding issues of precarity among rural health systems, along with the exclusionary logics of immigration, have mutually fashioned a “landscape of care” in which shared conditions of physical suffering and emotional anxiety among immigrants and rural residents generate powerful forms of regional vitality and social inclusion. She connects the Eastern Shore and its immigrant populations to many other places around the world that are struggling with the challenges of global migration, rural precarity, and health governance.

When 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm on 24 October 2024
Building Hybrid (67 Bay State Road and on Zoom)