Description: "Underneath the formal health care safety net system is an informal, threadbare, and disconnected infrastructure of free health services - a Third Net - that provides a patchwork of basic care to millions of undocumented and uninsured migrants across the country"--
Brief description: Lisa Sun-Hee Park is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform as well as co-author of The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy and The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden.
Review Quotes: "In a nation where immigrants are considered undeserving of health care and there is no universal safety net even for citizens, what happens to impoverished, undocumented, and uninsured migrants? Based on novel ethnographic detective work, The Third Net exposes a shadow system that ties together a seemingly disorganized patchwork of organizations serving the migrants who fall through the cracks. An essential contribution to understanding the interconnected forces that maintain the unjust US structure of care."-- "Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty"