We are delighted to virtually welcome Dr Megan Carney from the University of Arizona, to present “Safety is Number One, Healthcare is Number Two”: Care and Emigration Aspirations in the U.S.
Date: 25th February 2025
Time: 12:30- 13:30 GMT
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About the seminar
Moving abroad is an increasingly trending topic in the United States. Previous research has documented the ways that economic opportunities, political climate, and personal reasons frequently inform decisions to leave. However, less attention has been given to the role of safety and healthcare as these shape desires to relocate abroad. This talk presents findings from a recent study on US emigration that included qualitative interviews and a large cross-sectional survey in which participants stressed concerns about safety and healthcare in pursuing futures outside of the U.S. Emigration itself emerges a site of care and gestures to the perverse logics and outcomes of neoliberal governance in individualizing responsibility for health and wellbeing.
About the presenter
Megan Carney is a feminist medical and sociocultural anthropologist. She is associate professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Regional Food Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on migration, health, state violence, and livelihood and liberation struggles in borderlands, including around food and water insecurity. She conducts ethnographic and community-based collaborative research primarily in the US Southwest and the central Mediterranean. She is the author of the award-winning The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders (2015) and Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean (2021). Her book-in-progress is Exit from the United States: Emigration, Carcerality, and Abolition Feminist Futures.
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