In 2011, Tiffany Joseph was in Governor Valadares, Brazil, working on her dissertation on return migrants, people who moved to the United States and back again. When talking with her subjects about their time in the United States, Joseph found a portion of these interviewees said they struggled to access medical care when they lived in the Greater Boston area, despite Massachusetts’ renowned health care system and affordable insurance plans offered by the state.
Joseph wanted to look into this further. What started as a one-year project turned into years of research that became Joseph’s latest book. “Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare” looks at the shortcomings of Massachusetts’ health care system when it comes to immigrants, despite all the policies the state has implemented to try to reform this system.
