Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform

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193 Index Abramovitz, Mimi, 34–35 Advocates, 90; collaborations of, 146–50; for Medi-Cal eligibility process, 38. See also Legal advocates; Policy advocates AFDC. See Aid to Families with Dependent Children Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 32, 161n3 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 7 Amott, Teresa, 32 “Anchor babies,” 164n78, 175n28 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, 3, 84, 172n66 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 153 Asian Americans, 32, 168n12; Filipino Americans, 131–33 Asian Health Services (Oakland), 149 Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, 147 Avila, Ernestine, 51 Baby boomers, health care for, 150–51 Backdoor to Eugenics (Duster), 52, 55–56, 168n2 Bad mothers: good mothers compared to, 47–49; immigrant mothers compared to, 48; income and, 49–50 Baldwin, James, 139 Beauvoir, Simone de, 12 Belshé, Kimberly, 63–65. See also Rocio v. Belshé Black mothers, welfare and, 32–33 Black women: motherhood and, 48; stereotypes of, 16–17 Border immigrants: dangers to, 115, 119–20; rape risk of, 120, 174n25 Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldúa), 153 Border Patrol, 122–23 Borders, 115; enforcement of, 118–20, 122–23, 136–37; Operation Gatekeeper , 84, 116, 118–19. See also San Diego-Tijuana region Brown, Wendy, 151–52 Burawoy, Michael, 145, 176n18 Burton, Linda, 14 Bush, George W., 166n101 Calavita, Kitty, 57 California: Gold Rush in, 21, 165n86; health care fraud detection programs in, 5; immigrants in, 19–20; majority minority in, 84; SCHIP for, 177–24. See also Medi-Cal California Airport Residency Review (CARR), 60; PED audit and, 69–72, 72; procedure for, 61–63, 170n29; public charge and, 61–62 California Immigrant Welfare Collaborative , 147 Canning, Kathleen, 141–42 CARR. See California Airport Residency Review 194 Index Cartier, Carolyn, 150–51, 177n26 Census Bureau, U.S., 84 Center for Law and Social Policy, 166–99 Chang, Robert, 116 Charity, 141; paternalism and, 17 Chavez, Leo, 20 Childbirths: health care fraud and, 175n28; Medi-Cal for, 21–22; outcomes of, related to Medicaid, 7, 161n30. See also Immigrant births; Pregnancy Childhood, motherhood related to, 48 Children: “anchor babies,” 164n78, 175n28; deportations and loss of, 136, 175n37; of immigrants, 50–51, 53, 138; SCHIP for, 177n24 Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 21 Chinese immigrants, 21, 165n86 Choice: dependency compared to, 11–14; personal responsibility and, 15–16 CIS. See Citizenship and Immigration Service, U.S. Citizenship, 138; economic citizenship, 145–46; immigrant women and, 152–53; neoliberalism on, 151–52; paternalism and, 143–44; social citizenship, 6–7, 140–50; wage work related to, 144 Citizenship and Immigration Service, U.S. (CIS), 3–4 Civil Rights movement, 32 Clinton, Bill, 2–3, 163n43 Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (Los Angeles), 147 Collins, Jane, 142–43 Collins, Patricia Hill, 14, 16–17 Community Voices, 149 Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program (CPSP), 102, 173n10 Control: for dependency, 19. See also Power Cornelius, Wayne, 119–20 CPSP. See Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program Craven, William, 21 Davis, Gray: after PED audit, 83; policy advocates against, 81–83 Davis, Mike, 118 Deeming, of sponsors, 101, 173nn7–8 DeFreitas, Gregory, 172n73 DeGenova, Nicholas, 119 Delgado, Richard, 142 Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), 162n27, 167n20 Department of Health Services (DHS), 1, 125; Department of Homeland Security and, 45; against due process, 70; INS and, 2, 26, 45, 62–64, 66–68, 70, 91–92; languages and, 67; Medi-Cal from, 167n27; misuse of authority by, 17n47, 70. See also Port of Entry Fraud Detection Program Department of Homeland Security: DHS and, 45; INS and, 166n101 Department of Social Services (DSS): INS and, 44; Medi-Cal eligibility workers and, 41–42, 162n27 Dependency: choice compared to, 11– 14; control for, 19; economics and, 9–11; in employment, 16; family related to, 56–57; genealogy of, 16–17; of immigrant women, 143; immigrant women against, 86–87; neoliberalism and, 10–11, 30, 163n43; paternalism and, 52, 143; personal responsibility compared to, 35. See also Enforced dependency rituals; Power; Public charge Index 195 Deportability, 119; public charge related to, 15, 27, 164n61 Deportations: “alien removals” as, 85–86; Border Patrol for, 122–23; expedited removals as, 85; loss of children from, 136, 175n37; as “removal,” 85–86; serious illnesses related to, 134–35; USA Patriot Act and, 172n66 DHHS. See Department of Health and Human Services DHS. See Department of Health Services Domestic violence, 162n21 DSS. See Department of Social Services Due process, DHS against, 70 Duggan...