Embodied Politics Embodied Politics
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Embodied Politics

Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency, and Health Promotion in California

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Publisher Description

Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Project (IHP), a culturally and linguistically competent initiative that uses health workshops, health messages, and social programs to mitigate the structural vulnerability of Oaxacan migrants in California. Embodied Politics reconstructs how this initiative came to exist and describes how it operates. At the same time, it points out the conflicts, resistances, and counter-acts that emerge through the IHP’s attempts to guide the health behaviors and practices of Triqui and Mixteco migrants. Arguing for a structurally competent approach to migrant health, Embodied Politics shows how efforts to promote indigenous health may actually reinforce the same social and political economic forces, namely structural racism and neoliberalism, that are undermining the health of indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico and the United States.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2022
13 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
212
Pages
PUBLISHER
Rutgers University Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
2.9
MB

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