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Outside/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States

Resources and Information to support the NLM Traveling Exhibit Outside/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States

Events

Graphic Novel Book Clubs: The Most Costly Journey

April 14th & 20th

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We will read and discuss "The Most Costly Journey" - a non-fiction comics anthology presenting stories of survival and healing told by Latin American migrant farmworkers in Vermont, and drawn by New England cartoonists as a part of El Viaje Mas Caro project - a health care outreach effort aimed at addressing the overlooked mental health needs of vulnerable immigrants.

All participants will receive a free copy of the book.

Advancing Maternal Health Equity Among Migrant Communities

Crista Johnson-Agbakwu, MD, is the inaugural executive director of the new UMass Chan Medical School Collaborative in Health Equity. Dr. Johnson-Agbawku, professor of obstetrics & gynecology and population & quantitative health sciences, is an accomplished physician who has focused her career on reducing the disparities between social determinants of health and health care.

This talk was planned in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit, "Outside/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States," hosted at the UMass Chan Medical School Lamar Soutter Library March 13 - April 22, 2023.

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Further Reading

The Guarded Gate by Daniel Okrent
ISBN: 9781476798059
Publication Date: 2020-05-19
The Guarded Gate tells the complete story from its beginning in 1895, when Henry Cabot Lodge and other Boston Brahmins launched their anti-immigrant campaign. (FROM PUBLISHER)
Silent Travelers by Alan M. Kraut
ISBN: 9780801850967
Publication Date: 1995-03-01
This study traces the American tradition of the suspicion of immigrant populations spreading disease. From the cholera outbreak of the 1930s to the associations of Haitians and AIDS, the author shows how immigrant groups have been regularly slandered as carriers of particular diseases.
The Deportation Machine by Adam Goodman
ISBN: 9780691201993
Publication Date: 2020-05-26
In a sweeping and engaging narrative, Adam Goodman examines how federal, state, and local officials have targeted various groups for expulsion, from Chinese and Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century to Central Americans and Muslims today.
Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez
ISBN: 9780143137436
Publication Date: 2022-06-14
A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States. The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries--from the European colonization of the Americas to through the 2020 election.