TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Pathogenic policy: immigrant policing, fear, and parallel medical systems in the US South
JO  - Medical anthropology
A1  - Kline, Nolan
SP  - 396
EP  - 410
VL  - 36
IS  - 4
N2  - Medical anthropology has a vital role in identifying health-related impacts of policy. In the United States, increasingly harsh immigration policies have formed a multilayered immigrant policing regime comprising state and federal laws and local police practices, the effects of which demand ethnographic attention. In this article, I draw from ethnographic fieldwork in Atlanta, Georgia, to examine the biopolitics of immigrant policing. I underscore how immigrant policing directly impacts undocumented immigrants' health by producing a type of fear based governance that alters immigrants' health behaviors and sites for seeking health services. Ethnographic data further point to how immigrant policing sustains a need for an unequal, parallel medical system, reflecting broader social inequalities impacting vulnerable populations. Moreover, by focusing on immigrant policing, I demonstrate the analytical utility in examining the biopolitics of fear, which can reveal individual experiences and structural influents of health-related vulnerability.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0145-9740
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2016.1259621
ID  - ref1
ER  -