title: Pathogenic Policy: Immigrant Policing, Fear, and Parallel Medical Systems in the US South.
abstract: Medical anthropology has a vital role in identifying health-related impacts of policy. In the United States, increasingly harsh immigration policies have formed a multilayered immigrant policing regime comprising state and federal laws and local police practices, the effects of which demand ethnographic attention. In this article, I draw from ethnographic fieldwork in Atlanta, Georgia, to examine the biopolitics of immigrant policing. I underscore how immigrant policing directly impacts undocumented immigrants' health by producing a type of fear based governance that alters immigrants' health behaviors and sites for seeking health services. Ethnographic data further point to how immigrant policing sustains a need for an unequal, parallel medical system, reflecting broader social inequalities impacting vulnerable populations. Moreover, by focusing on immigrant policing, I demonstrate the analytical utility in examining the biopolitics of fear, which can reveal individual experiences and structural influents of health-related vulnerability.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Anthropology , Rollins College , Winter Park , Florida , USA.
authors.forename: Nolan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kline
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D060432:Anthropology, Medical; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005239:Fear / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005845:Georgia / Q000208:ethnology; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000069756:Undocumented Immigrants / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology*; D035862:Vulnerable Populations / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Undocumented immigrants; biopolitics; health care; immigration enforcement; parallel medical systems; policing