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The Boston Medical Center Immigrant Task Force: An Alternative to Teaching Immigration Law to Health Care Providers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2021

Abstract

As healthcare providers engage in the politics of reforming and humanizing our immigration and asylum “system” it is critical that they are able to refer their patients whose health is directly impacted by our immigration laws and policies to experts who can help them navigate the system and obtain the healthcare they need.

Type
Independent Articles: Commentary
Copyright
© 2021 The Author(s)

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