Candidate in the Joint UCSF/UCB PhD in Medical Anthropology Program.
Professor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC.
AMA J Ethics. 2022 Apr 1;24(4):E275-282. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.275.
Migrants along the US-Mexico border have been subjected to transnational violence created by international policy, militaristic intervention, and multinational organizational administration of border operations. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded migrants' vulnerabilities and provoked several logistical and ethical problems for US-based clinicians and organizations. This commentary examines how the concept of transnational solidarity facilitates analysis of clinicians' and migrants' shared historical and structural vulnerabilities. This commentary also suggests how actions implemented by one organization in Tijuana, Mexico, could be scaled more broadly for care of migrants and asylum seekers in other transnational health care settings.
美墨边境的移民一直受到国际政策、军国主义干预以及跨国边境行动组织管理所造成的跨国暴力的影响。COVID-19 大流行使移民更加脆弱，并给美国临床医生和组织带来了一些后勤和道德问题。本文评论探讨了跨国团结的概念如何促进分析临床医生和移民之间共同的历史和结构性脆弱性。本文还建议了墨西哥蒂华纳的一个组织所实施的行动如何在其他跨国医疗保健环境中更广泛地推广，以照顾移民和寻求庇护者。
