Abstract

Women Without A Country—And Health Care Entitled To Nothing: The Struggle For Immigrant Health Care In The Age Of Welfare Reform by Lisa Sun-Hee Park New York (NY) : New York University Press , 2011 205 pp.; $65.00 (cloth), $21.00 (paper) Marilyn Aguirre-Molina 1 CUNY-Lehman College 1 Marilyn Aguirre-Molina ( maguirremolina@cunyhealthequity.org ) is a professor of public health at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health (Lehman) and is executive director of the CUNY Institute for Health Equity. Lisa Sun-Hee Park’s Entitled to Nothing explores the direction of immigration policy in the United States and interweaves it with health care policy and welfare policy to describe their effect on immigrants. The main focus of the book is on access to prenatal care among Asian and Latina immigrants (both those who arrived in the United States legally and, to some extent, those who arrived illegally) during the late 1990s. Based on interviews with close to 200 key social workers, medical personnel, and policy advocates in California, Park sheds light on how prevailing cultural views about immigrants shaped the passage of federal welfare reform, immigration reform, and antiterrorism legislation in the late 1990s and the devastating