Doctoral Dissertation Research: Transnational Migration and Health Access

SES-1103236 Michael Bell Julie C.几十年来，移民研究一直集中在国外移民寄往国内家人的汇款上。较少讨论和了解的是反向跨国转移卫生物资。这将通过明确考虑健康的生产如何跨越国界来扩展跨国移徙研究。本研究的重点是移民流之间的奶牛场的威斯康星州和工人的社区的起源，墨西哥中部韦拉克鲁斯州，回答以下问题：1）如何相互作用的社会边缘化的各个方面的性别，语言，种族，公民身份，文件形状移民的健康做法？2)融入接受国社会的不同程度如何以及在何种程度上影响移徙者的跨国保健做法？3)移徙者的跨国保健做法在多大程度上考虑了性别因素？用于回答这些问题的数据将通过为期一年的参与观察方法和深入采访目前的乳品工人在威斯康星州和前乳品工人在韦拉克鲁斯州收集。这项调查的一个关键的理论部分是确定的作用，移民纳入形成的跨国健康的做法，从而有助于目前的社会学辩论在该地区的移民。其次，这项研究将有助于性别和健康的社会学跟踪跨国健康的做法是如何形成的性别关系。这项研究是及时的，因为最近的卫生改革和即将进行的移民改革很可能会影响移民获得医疗保健和融入接收社区的方式。这项研究提供了一个窗口，进入社会边缘的移民的生活，因为他们谈判获得卫生服务，并依靠跨国关系来管理健康问题。这项研究的结果将提供重要的信息，不仅为学者，但为国家机构和移民倡导者。 调查结果的报告将与威斯康星州的州代表和州和国家一级的各种移民倡导组织分享。此外，共同研究员将与韦拉克鲁斯州哈拉帕的学者保持联系，鼓励美国和墨西哥学者就移民问题进行对话。 该研究的结果可以为未来的卫生政策提供信息，并通过阐明移民如何在卫生服务受限或受限的情况下满足其卫生需求来促进国际学术联盟。

SES-1103236Michael BellJulie C. KellerUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonFor decades, migration research has focused on remittances sent from immigrants abroad to their families at home. Less discussed and understood is the transnational transfer of health goods in the reverse direction. This will extend transnational migration studies by explicitly considering how the production of health spans national boundaries. This study focuses on a migration stream of workers between the dairies of western Wisconsin and workers' communities of origin in central Veracruz, Mexico to answer the following questions: 1) How does the interaction of various dimensions of social marginalization-gender, language, ethnicity, citizenship, documentation-shape migrant health practices? 2) How, and to what extent, do different levels of incorporation into receiving societies shape the transnational health practices of migrants? 3) To what extent are the transnational health practices of migrants gendered? Data used to answer these questions will be collected through one year of participant-observation methods and in-depth interviews with current dairy workers in Wisconsin and former dairy workers in Veracruz. A key theoretical part of this investigation is identifying the role of immigrant incorporation in the formation of transnational health practices, thus contributing to current sociological debates in the area of migration. Secondly, this research will contribute to the sociology of gender and health by tracing how transnational health practices are shaped by gender relations. This study is timely given that recent health reform and impending immigration reform will very likely affect the way immigrants experience health care access and incorporation in receiving communities. This study offers a window into the lives of migrants at the margins of society as they negotiate access to health services and rely on transnational ties to manage health problems. The results of this research will provide important information not just for scholars, but for state agencies and immigrant advocates. Reports of findings will be shared with Wisconsin state representatives and various immigrant advocacy organizations at the state and national levels. Additionally, co-investigator will maintain connections with scholars in Xalapa, Veracruz to encourage dialogue between American and Mexican scholars on migration issues. The results of the study can inform future health policy and promote international academic alliances by shedding light on how immigrants get their health needs met in a context of constrained or restricted health access.