Sangaramoorthy in Barn Raiser: Beyond Legal Status: Rethinking Immigration and Health in Rural America (Series, 1/6)

Last week, Thurka Sangaramoorthy, founder of the Public Ethnography Lab, published the first article in what will be a six-part series in partnership with Barn Raiser, an outlet which supports “trusted, independent journalism spotlighting critical issues and amplifying the diverse voices shaping the future of rural communities.”

This article - Beyond Legal Status: Rethinking Immigration and Health in Rural America — translates the concepts and theories first published in her 2023 book, Landscapes of Care, for a broader, public audience at a time when better understandings of immigrant realities are as urgent as ever. Beyond Legal Status invites readers to reevaluate their understandings of the “legal/illegal binary” to see how “the focus on legal status as the primary barrier to health care access misses how other forms of exclusion operate.”

Look out for new articles in this series over the coming weeks.