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Medical Outcasts is much more than a comparative case study of the need for emergency medical services by Mexican women in the U.S. and Zimbabwean women in South Africa—all immigrants without legal status. Roxane Richter’s research raises profound question of gender inequity, human rights, global ethics and the survival of communities forced to move by natural or human-generated disasters. -- William P. Brandon, Emeritus Metrolina Medical Foundation Distinguished Professor of Health Policy, University of North Carolina Charlotte This study brings together the treatment of Mexican and Zimbabwean undocumented women refugees in the United States and South Africa respectively. Roxane Richter’s Medical Outcasts sheds new light on the effects of democratic, ethical and human rights deficits for gender equality and refugees in emergency medical services in both countries. -- Sheila Meintjes, University of the Witwatersrand This book is a timely transdisciplinary research on migrations and the resulting vulnerabilities people, especially women, face when it is complicated by lack of access to health care in the new countries. Richter convincingly demonstrates these challenges through research carried on the experiences of Zimbabwean women in Johannesburg and Mexican women in Houston. This study is a major contribution to global health studies. -- Elias Kifon Bongmba, Harry and Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology, professor of religious studies, Rice University ; president of the African Association for the Study of Religion

Medical Outcasts is much more than a comparative case study of the need for emergency medical services by Mexican women in the U.S. and Zimbabwean women in South Africa-all immigrants without legal status. Roxane Richter's research raises profound question of gender inequity, human rights, global ethics and the survival of communities forced to move by natural or human-generated disasters. -- William P. Brandon, University of North Carolina Charlotte

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Roxane Richter is president of World Missions Possible.

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