Landscapes of Care

“Sangaramoorthy aptly integrates concerns for pressing material disparities with diverse theorizations of precarity, infrastructure, and temporality . . . [leaving] the reader with an impression of a robustly evinced yet meticulously concise work. We recommend this book for health policy scholars and practitioners for its ethnographic contextualization of how the development of policies have shaped rural health disparities. Moreover, it will serve as an excellent addition to reading lists of courses in rural and migrant health for students of medicine and the social sciences.”—Bulletin of History and Medicine

“Landscapes of Care is a timely and highly relevant ethnography that is well-suited for courses in medical anthropology, migration, rural studies, and public health. . . . [A] powerful—and much needed—ethnography of rural health and healthcare, and its relevance extends well beyond ‘the land that time forgot.’”—Medical Anthropology Quarterly

“An important addition to the literatures of food studies and agricultural labor. By drawing on agricultural nature of care, it promises to be a useful text for scholars of medicine and food studies for years to come.”—Gastronomica

“A deeply compelling ethnographic study of how immigration, health, and rural precarity intersect in the everyday lives of immigrants and healthcare providers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Drawing on nearly 6 years of fieldwork, the book addresses a critical gap in sociological and public health literature by examining how spatial, temporal, and racial logics shape care delivery in regions often marginalized in both research and policy discourse.”—Sociology of Health and Illness

“[Sangaramoorthy] weaves observations and stories of immigrant workers and their health providers with interdisciplinary literature that makes clear that this treatise has applicability beyond the Eastern shore. . . . Recommended.”—CHOICE

“Sangaramoorthy offers a glimpse into how and under what conditions migrant workers from Latin America, the Caribbean, and other parts of North America seek, receive, and fashion care. This book provides new ways of reimagining much of the conventional thinking within medical anthropology about immigration and immigrant health.”—Adia Benton, Northwestern University

“This is a deftly written book that skillfully brings together multiple strands of analysis through a clear, coherent, and well-theorized set of arguments. Drawing on a rich set of interdisciplinary scholarship, Sangaramoorthy complicates conventional ways of thinking about immigration and rural health in the US.”—Jennifer Liu, University of Waterloo