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The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare

byEram Alam

Eram Alam traces how changes to US immigration law after 1965 brought thousands of foreign-trained physicians into an expanding American health-care system. Focusing especially on doctors from South Asia, she shows how hospitals and underserved communities came to depend on their labor even as licensing rules, racial hierarchies, and professional expectations marked them as outsiders. The book connects immigration policy, medical education, Cold War development, and the global movement of skilled workers. It reveals both the opportunities immigrant physicians created and the inequalities embedded in America's reliance on medical talent trained abroad.

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Publication date

2025-10-14

Format

Paperback

Pages

224

ISBN

9781421452784