Arguing for a structurally competent approach to migrant health, Embodied Politics shows how efforts to promote indigenous health may actually reinforce the same social and political economic forces, namely structural racism and neoliberalism, that are undermining the health of indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico and the United States.

REBECCA J. HESTER is an assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. She is a co-editor of Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas and the author of several publications on the promises and pitfalls of cultural competence.

Preface
Chapter 1 The Paradoxical Politics of Health Promotion
Chapter 2 Structural Violence, Migrant Activism, and Indigenous Health
Chapter 3 The "Mexican Model" of Health: Examining the Travels and Translations of Health Promotion
Chapter 4 Números, Números, Números: Making Health Programs Accountable
Chapter 5 Cultural Sensitivity Training and the Cultural Politics of Teaching Tolerance
Chapter 6 La Lucha Sigue: Migrant Activism and the Ongoing Struggle to Promote Indigenous Health
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index