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... health improvements in Brazil would take place via immigration. This argument is crucial to examining generalizable processes over time, including the relation of health to global labor markets, globalized ideas about public health, and the construction and function of health geographies...

... This chapter engages the ethical history of American trans- medicine as a distinct “geography of care” and shows how that history continues to bear on the clinical present. Surgeons’ efforts to frame their work with trans- patients in ethical and affective terms both respond to the fact of poor...

... The introduction, “Detritus in Durban, 2002–2008,” makes three moves. First, it poses the problem of racialized life in the industrial-residential valley of South Durban, which foists the burden of ill health on specifically racialized populations. Second, it shows how people responded...

... The conclusion explores the process through which the tourism industry has conjoined itself with the retirement and health care industries to provide balikbayans with a solution to their incessant anxiety around returning and settling back home in the Philippines. Retirement villages represent...

...Racial Palimpsest Part 1, “Racial Palimpsest,” diagnoses layered conjunctures in South Africa's twentieth century seen from the changing geographies of South Durban, where the Durban City Council imagined fulfilling its fantasy of building a white city. With very thin knowledge of ground...

... and analytical terms against enduring colonial and imperial separations/ideations of space, time, and bodies in the European contemporary. The provocation—affect is migrant—articulates foremost the will to traverse less habituated geographies and mobilizations of theory. It also gathers archives, journeys...