What Rural Healthcare Looks Like in ‘The Land that Time Forgot’: How immigrant workers navigate rural healthcare in Maryland’s Eastern Shore

Citation: Sangaramoorthy, Thurka. “What Rural Healthcare Looks Like in ‘The Land That Time Forgot.’” Barn Raiser, April 7, 2024.

Abstract: “Migration has become a central strategy for rural development in these areas that have undergone substantial rural outmigration because of the devastation of small-scale agriculture brought about by the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Mexican neoconservative governmental regimes of 2000 to 2012. In turn, the intensification of induced labor migration has deepened gendered and racialized employment patterns globally, such as those found within commercial seafood processing. “