Medical Necessity?
Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making, by Daniel Skinner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019)….
Posts Tagged 'United States'
Illegal Encounters
Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People, edited by Deborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio…
Migration, Inequality, and the American Dream
Domestic Economies: Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles. Susanna Rosenbaum (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017). Reviewed by…
Anticipating Adoption: Mariner’s “Contingent Kinship”
Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States, by Kathryn A. Mariner (Berkeley: University of California…
Islands of Sovereignty
by Greg Beckett, Western University Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire, by Jeffrey S. Kahn (Chicago:…
Environmental Impacts
by Daniel Polk Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, by Teresa…
Review Essay: On Knowing Addiction
On Knowing Addiction In June 2018, artists placed a 700-pound sculpture of a massive spoon used for cooking heroin outside…
Review Essay: Law and Migrant Labor in the 20th Century: Ghost Workers and Global Capitalism
Large-scale movements of workers, production lines, commodities, and centers of power have been integral to capitalist development since its earliest…
Book Review: Alicia Peters’ Responding to Human Trafficking: Sex, Gender and Culture in the Law
Alicia Peters’ comprehensive study, Responding to Human Trafficking, makes a strong argument for a victim-centered approach to law-making and law…
Review Essay: Challenging the State of Exception: New Ethnographies of International Migration and its Constraints
Challenging the State of Exception: New Ethnographies of International Migration and its Constraints The topic of migration has been a…
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 