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Medical Deportations and Racial Narratives of the Burdensome Migrant
American Behavioral Scientist ( IF 2.531 ) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 , DOI: 10.1177/00027642221083540
Lisa Sun-Hee Park 1
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Hospitals across the U.S. are quietly removing severely injured and chronically ill migrants to other nations. It is a reality that exists in practice but not in policy and is experienced by hundreds, potentially thousands, of low-income uninsured migrants. There is no formal accounting or regulation of this practice and federal immigration authorities remain silent regarding this practice despite the fact that alien removals, or deportations, are solely within their jurisdiction. Focusing on a case study, this paper analyzes migrant narratives embedded within news media accounts and legal analyses of medical deportations to address how this controversial practice is rationalized by health care providers. In these accounts, a racialized narrative of migrants as public burdens was clearly evident. This paper argues that such narratives have the power to transform actions legally defined as illegal—such as medical deportations—into a reasonable practice. In this way, social “cost” is racialized into individual debt, allowing for seemingly extraordinary disciplinary actions that are contrary to normative policy and ethics.

中文翻译:

繁重移民的医疗驱逐和种族叙述

美国各地的医院正在悄悄地将严重受伤和患有慢性病的移民转移到其他国家。这是一个存在于实践中但不存在于政策中的现实,成百上千的低收入无保险移民都经历过这种情况。这种做法没有正式的会计或法规,联邦移民当局对这种做法保持沉默,尽管外国人遣返或驱逐出境仅在其管辖范围内。本文以案例研究为重点,分析了嵌入在新闻媒体报道中的移民叙述和对医疗驱逐出境的法律分析,以解决医疗保健提供者如何合理化这种有争议的做法。在这些叙述中,将移民作为公共负担的种族化叙述是显而易见的。本文认为,此类叙述有能力将法律定义为非法的行为(例如医疗驱逐出境)转变为合理的做法。通过这种方式,社会“成本”被种族化为个人债务,允许看似异常的纪律处分违反规范政策和道德规范。
更新日期:2022-03-24
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