Life on the edge: Immigrants confront the American health system

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-22

  Portes, Alejandro ^a   Fernández Kelly, Patricia ^a   Light, Donald ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

free clinics; health insurance; institutionalized compassion; language assimilation; transnationalism; Unauthorized immigration

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION POLICY; INSURANCE SYSTEM;

CALIFORNIA; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857946830     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.594173     Document Type: Article

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