Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston , Houston , Texas , USA.
Med Anthropol. 2019 Aug-Sep;38(6):523-536. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2019.1587421. Epub 2019 Mar 27.
Undocumented Mexican immigrants have had to regularly confront a prohibiting health care system despite alienation, marginalization, and the threat of deportation. In this article, I explore the impact of political exclusion and alienating discourses on the health habitus of undocumented Mexican mothers through the narrative of one mother, Marta Garza, who finds herself at the painful intersection of political and medical alienation. Marta's narrative reflects an analytical framework that centers undocumented motherhood as a space of necessary resilience and strain, wherein she is forced to advocate for her children's health despite prohibitive barriers and dangerous potential consequences.
无证墨西哥移民尽管受到疏远、边缘化和被驱逐出境的威胁，但仍不得不经常面对一个禁止他们获得医疗保健的体系。在本文中，我通过一位母亲玛尔塔·加尔萨（Marta Garza）的叙述，探讨了政治排斥和排斥性话语对无证墨西哥母亲健康习惯的影响，她发现自己处于政治和医疗排斥的痛苦交集点上。玛尔塔的叙述反映了一个分析框架，该框架将无证母亲身份视为一个必要的韧性和压力空间，在这个空间中，她被迫为孩子的健康而奋斗，尽管存在着禁止性的障碍和危险的潜在后果。
