<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues -</div><div><br></div><div>With many thanks to everyone who sent me suggestions, I am pasting below the compiled list of readings for undergraduates on the intersection of language, health, and migration. (Readings are listed simply in the order they were suggested).</div><div><span style="font-size:11pt"><span> </span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">1) Willie Ramirez case: <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20081119.000463/full/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20081119.000463/full/</a></span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">2) Doctor perspective on medical
interpretation: <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.27.6.1695" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.27.6.1695</a></span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">3) Medical interpreter perspective: <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.27.6.1701" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.27.6.1701</a></span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">4) Faulstich Orellana's stuff on child brokers
includes medical interviews and material about policy. Good stuff for
class discussion, esp. if you have second generation immigrants in your group:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6zHlMZcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6zHlMZcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra</a><span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">(I decided to include this piece: <span style="color:black">Reynolds, Jennifer and Orellana,
Marjorie Faulstich. 2009. “New Immigrant Youth Interpreting in White Public
Space.” <i>American Anthropologist </i>111(2):
211-223.)<span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">5) Seth Holmes' "Fresh Fruit Broken
Bodies" chapter 5 is pretty terrific, although I recommend squeezing in
the whole book, if you can. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fresh-Fruit-Broken-Bodies-Anthropology/dp/0520275144/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1550257128&sr=8-1&keywords=seth+holmes" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.amazon.com/Fresh-Fruit-Broken-Bodies-Anthropology/dp/0520275144/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1550257128&sr=8-1&keywords=seth+holmes</a></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">6) Work of Glenn Martinez: <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://osu1.academia.edu/GlennMartinez" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://osu1.academia.edu/GlennMartinez</a></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6931059_Language_Barriers_to_Health_Care_in_the_United_States" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6931059_Language_Barriers_to_Health_Care_in_the_United_States</a></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">(I decided to include this piece of his: <span style="color:black">Martinez, Glenn. 2008.
Language-in-healthcare policy, interaction patterns, and unequal care on the
U.S.-Mexico border. <i>Language Policy</i>
7:345-363.)<span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">7) Briggs,
Charles L., and Daniel C. Hallin. 2016. <i>Making Health Public: How News
Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life</i>. Milton Park,
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge. Especially chapter 6 on race. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">8) Hallin, Daniel C, and Charles L Briggs.
2015. “Transcending the Medical/Media Opposition in Research on News Coverage
of Health and Medicine.” <i>Media, Culture & Society</i> 37 (1): 85–100. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443714549090" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443714549090</a>.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">9) Briggs, Charles L. 2003. “Why Nation-States
and Journalists Can’t Teach People to Be Healthy: Power and Pragmatic
Miscalculation in Public Discourses on Health.” <i>Medical Anthropology
Quarterly</i> 17 (3): 287–321. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1525/maq.2003.17.3.287" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://doi.org/10.1525/maq.2003.17.3.287</a>.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">10) Kitiarsa,
Pattana. 2014. <i>The “Bare Life” of Thai Migrant Workmen in Singapore</i>.
Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books. Especially chapter 5 on SUNDS.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">11) Peled, Yael. 2018. “Language Barriers and
Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare Settings.” <i>Bioethics</i> 32 (6): 360–67. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12435" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12435</a>.<span></span></span></p>
</span></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Lynnette Arnold, PhD<br></div>Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow<br><br></div>Department of Anthropology<br></div><div>Swearer Center for Public Service<br></div>Cogut Institute for the Humanities<br></div>Brown University<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>