case study

Structural vulnerability

risk that an individual experiences as a result of structural violence – including their location in multiple socioeconomic hierarchies.

Structural vulnerability is not caused by, nor can it be repaired solely by, individual agency or behaviors.

Naturalizing inequality (including examples of implicit frameworks)Necropolitics

• The sometimes subtle, sometimes explicit, ways that structural violence is overlooked

• Often through claims of cultural difference, behavioral shortcomings, or racial categories… which distract from the structural causes of harm

• Operates through “Implicit Frameworks”

Necropolitics

the use of social and political power that dictateswho may live and who is left to die (Achille Mbembe)

The immigrant paradox in health

Immigration as a social determinant of health

causes of migration (i.e. displacement, asylum-seeking, economi opportunities)

Immigration laws: Precarious legal status -> leads to limited access to healthcare, employment, education

Labor inequality -> housing or food insecurity -> leads to disparities in health outcomes

Ethnic/Racial/Gender Structural Hierarchies:

• Chronic exposure to structural and interpersonal discrimination, harassment, or abuse