Beatrix Hoffman is professor of history at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930 and The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America.

“This complex, somber book about US health care exposes how foreign nationals provide the United States with many health workers, even when they have no official right to receive that care. Historian of medicine Beatrix Hoffman notes that the many politicians who portray foreign nationals as a burden on medical resources ignore the fact that ‘both the health care system and the immigration system are fundamentally broken.’ Of US nurses who died of COVID-19, 20–30% were Filipino Americans and Philippine migrants.”

• Introduction: Two Broken Systems1. Immigrant Health Threats, Immigrant Health Action2. Health Care in the Era of Restriction and Expulsion3. Insuring, Exploiting, and Caring for Migrants4. From Access to Rights5. Health Politics as Immigration Politics6. Violence against Health7. Undocumented, Uninsured, UnafraidEpilogue: From Pandemic to PowerAcknowledgmentsArchives ConsultedNotesIndex

Beatrix Hoffman is professor of history at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930 and The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America.

“This complex, somber book about US health care exposes how foreign nationals provide the United States with many health workers, even when they have no official right to receive that care. Historian of medicine Beatrix Hoffman notes that the many politicians who portray foreign nationals as a burden on medical resources ignore the fact that ‘both the health care system and the immigration system are fundamentally broken.’ Of US nurses who died of COVID-19, 20–30% were Filipino Americans and Philippine migrants.”

• Introduction: Two Broken Systems1. Immigrant Health Threats, Immigrant Health Action2. Health Care in the Era of Restriction and Expulsion3. Insuring, Exploiting, and Caring for Migrants4. From Access to Rights5. Health Politics as Immigration Politics6. Violence against Health7. Undocumented, Uninsured, UnafraidEpilogue: From Pandemic to PowerAcknowledgmentsArchives ConsultedNotesIndex

Beatrix Hoffman is professor of history at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930 and The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America.

“This complex, somber book about US health care exposes how foreign nationals provide the United States with many health workers, even when they have no official right to receive that care. Historian of medicine Beatrix Hoffman notes that the many politicians who portray foreign nationals as a burden on medical resources ignore the fact that ‘both the health care system and the immigration system are fundamentally broken.’ Of US nurses who died of COVID-19, 20–30% were Filipino Americans and Philippine migrants.”

• Introduction: Two Broken Systems1. Immigrant Health Threats, Immigrant Health Action2. Health Care in the Era of Restriction and Expulsion3. Insuring, Exploiting, and Caring for Migrants4. From Access to Rights5. Health Politics as Immigration Politics6. Violence against Health7. Undocumented, Uninsured, UnafraidEpilogue: From Pandemic to PowerAcknowledgmentsArchives ConsultedNotesIndex