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Book Review| March 01 2021 America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins. Inhorn, Marcia C.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 256 pages. isbn 9780804786393. Gabrielle Printz Gabrielle Printz GABRIELLE PRINTZ is a PhD student in the School of Architecture at Yale University and adjunct instructor at the University at Buffalo. She is author, with Rosana Elkhatib and Virginia Black, of “Passport: Belonging in No Woman’s Land,” in the 2020 issue of Thresholds, and associate editor of the book Bodybuilding (2019). Contact: gabrielle.printz@yale.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 125–128. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8790304 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Gabrielle Printz; America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 March 2021; 17 (1): 125–128. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8790304 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Middle East Women's Studies Search Advanced Search Inside a nondescript clinic in Dearborn, Michigan, refugees from Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine disclose personal histories shaped by both war and infertility. They are not unrelated experiences, as Marcia C. Inhorn demonstrates throughout this book. The ethnographic accounts she collects over her five years of study vividly collapse the health consequences of conflict, exile, and poverty into the frame of reproductive care in America. What possibilities remain for men and women in the double exile from reproductive futures and war-ravaged homelands? Moreover, what should be done to help Arab refugees establish lives and livelihoods? Inhorn contributes important language to these struggles in her conceptualization of “reproductive exile,” and this work unfolds as a testament to the pain and prospects of making lives and families under the terms of US resettlement.America’s Arab Refugees is built on Inhorn’s... Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies2021 You do not currently have access to this content.
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