The Third Net

Lisa Sun-Hee Park (Author) Lisa Sun-Hee Park is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform as well as co-author of The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy and The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden. Erin Hoekstra (Author) Erin Hoekstra is an independent scholar. Her work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, City & Community, and Health Tomorrow: Interdisciplinarity and Internationality. Anthony M. Jimenez (Author) Anthony M. Jimenez is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His work has appeared in Social Science & Medicine, City, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the Journal of Asthma, the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, and Health Tomorrow: Interdisciplinarity and Internationality.

"The Third Net exposes the informally organized healthcare system that undergirds the formal health system, occupying a liminal space that allows it to serve the marginalized who fall outside the private insurance market. It offers a rich empirical site and an analytical lens through which to grasp the injustices of a formal health system that is designed to neglect poor and legally vulnerable immigrants. It is original, eye-opening, illuminating, accessible, and an essential read. Highly recommended!" * Cecilia Menjivar, co-author of Immigrant Families (Polity) *