Health, welfare reform, and narratives of uncertainty among Cambodian refugees.

摘要: Massive disruptions to a way of life, such as thosebrought on by widespread violence, terror, andgenocide, disorder the body well socialorder. When they flee their homelands, refugees bringtheir experiences violence and terror with them. Drawing an ethnographic study 40 Cambodianrefugees between ages 50 79 who sufferedfrom one or more chronic illnesses, we explore howrefugees live illnesses aredependent government support were affected thethreat welfare reform. reformthreatened cut Cambodian refugees' income, it poseda new crisis for those chronically in limboand placed further constraints lives. Through narratives, enactedtheir bodily distress resisted threat ofwelfare The story threatened welfarereform U.S. its possible consequences forrefugees is quixotic politics,policies antidotes refugeeism gone awry.