Landscapes of Care
Immigration and Health in Rural America
By Thurka Sangaramoorthy
196 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 halftones, 1 map, 1 graph, 1 table
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7417-9
Published: June 2023 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7416-2
Published: June 2023 -
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Published: April 2023 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-6286-0
Published: April 2023
Studies in Social Medicine
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Awards & distinctions
Honorable Mention, 2023 SANA Book Prize, Society for the Anthropology of North America
Honorable Mention, 2024 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section, American Sociological Association
About the Author
Thurka Sangaramoorthy is professor of anthropology at American University.
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“[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
“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
"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