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Title: | Suffering in the shadows: "undocumented" Latin American immigrants, inequality, embodiment and health |
Author(s): | Mantilla, Bryanna |
Director of Research: | Liao, Tim F. |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Liao, Tim F. |
Doctoral Committee Member(s): | Viruell-Fuentes, Edna; Zerai, Assata; McDermott, Monica |
Department / Program: | Sociology |
Discipline: | Sociology |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | undocumented
Latin American Latino Latina Hispanic immigrant migrant health embodiment social determinants of health structural violence inequality qualitative illegal sociology Latino Studies racialization immigration Washington DC intersectionality theory immigration policy unauthorized mental health physical health suffering |
Abstract: | This study utilizes the idea of embodiment to examine the social processes that “undocumented” Latin American migrants undergo and how these social processes affect their health. Embodiment refers to how our bodies and minds literally incorporate, from conception to death, the material and social world in which we live (Krieger, 2001b). The study uses a critical intersectional lens and an adapted grounded theory approach to analyze 31 original qualitative in-depth interviews with nationally diverse “undocumented” Latin American migrants from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in order to create a theoretical framework that addresses: (1) how “undocumented” Latin American migrants experience structural violence and inequality through various pathways (e.g. labor exploitation, detention and deportation, gender based violence, racialized nativism, discrimination and othering, fragmentation of social ties, and internalized suffering), which results in differential exposure and susceptibility to poor health outcomes; (2) how “undocumented” Latino/a migrants respond to and contend with inequality; and (3) how structural violence and inequality becomes deleterious physical and mental health outcomes through multilevel pathways of embodiment. |
Issue Date: | 2014-09-16 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/50504 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2014 Bryanna Mantilla |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2014-09-16 |
Date Deposited: | 2014-08 |
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois