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Santos Remedios: How Mexican Immigrants Use Authoritative Healing Knowledge to Survive Migration
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry ( IF 2.333 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-09 , DOI: 10.1007/s11013-021-09734-5
Rebecca M Crocker 1 , Patrisia Gonzales 2
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Mexicans living in the United States frequently rely upon popular healing to address a broad spectrum of physical, psychological, and spiritual ailments. They practice Mesoamerican healing ways including using herbal remedies, employing nutritional health promotion and illness remediation, over the counter pharmaceuticals, prayer and religion, and visiting expert healers. In this article, we utilize Brigitte Jordan’s theory of “authoritative knowledge,” to show how Mexican immigrants’ ancestral and ecological-based healing knowledge travels with them through migration. Based on original ethnographic research in the Southwest borderlands, we expand an understanding of the factors that support the continuity of authoritative knowledge spatially and temporally. Mexicans’ healing knowledge persisted north of the border because it (1) incorporated a wide array of healing techniques and materials that remained accessible post-migration, (2) enabled immigrants to heal according to Mesoamerican worldviews that privileged natural modalities and a holistic approach to body, mind, and spirit, and (3) remained relevant by allowing immigrants to remedy daily health stressors inherent to Mexican migration, including the border crossing, detention and deportation, and daily fear provoked by undocumented status. While lay practices have often been interpreted as problematic by medical professionals, we conclude that Mexicans’ authoritative healing knowledge serves as a survival mechanism during the challenging circumstances of binational migration.



中文翻译:

Santos Remedios:墨西哥移民如何利用权威的治疗知识在移民中生存

生活在美国的墨西哥人经常依靠大众疗法来解决广泛的身体、心理和精神疾病。他们练习中美洲的治疗方法,包括使用草药、采用营养健康促进和疾病治疗、非处方药、祈祷和宗教,以及拜访专家治疗师。在本文中,我们利用 Brigitte Jordan 的“权威知识”理论,展示墨西哥移民的祖传和基于生态的治疗知识如何通过移民与他们一起传播。基于对西南边疆地区的原始民族志研究,我们扩展了对支持权威知识在空间和时间上连续性的因素的理解。墨西哥人的治疗知识在边境以北一直存在,因为它 (1) 融合了广泛的治疗技术和材料,这些技术和材料在移民后仍然可以使用,(2) 使移民能够根据中美洲的世界观进行治疗,该世界观优先考虑自然方式和整体方法身体、思想和精神,以及 (3) 通过允许移民解决墨西哥移民固有的日常健康压力因素,包括过境、拘留和驱逐,以及无证身份引起的日常恐惧,保持相关性。虽然非专业实践经常被医疗专业人员解释为有问题,但我们得出结论,墨西哥人的权威治疗知识在充满挑战的两国移民环境中充当了生存机制。

更新日期:2021-07-12
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