Invisibility in Graduate Student Health Insurance at UIUC
Scarborough, Isabel
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Title
Invisibility in Graduate Student Health Insurance at UIUC
Author(s)
Scarborough, Isabel
Issue Date
2005-05-15
Keyword(s)
Healthcare
Mckinley Health Center
Multicultural Health Center
Graduate Students
Administration/Services
International Students
Abstract
This project investigates health insurance issues amongst international graduate students who are residents of student and family housing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). On the basis of interviews, time allocation mapping, archival research, and review of university documents, the study finds that that the Multicultural Health Center provides very few actual health care services, and the space itself is practically and virtually “invisible” to both members of the UIUC community, and the larger Champaign-Urbana population. This is so, despite the fact that the inadequacy of the university health insurance for the UIUC graduate student population is a topic which has been debated for the past four decades within the university community, and which is an important part of current contract negotiations between UIUC’s Graduate Employee’s Organization and this university’s administration. The author argues that the invisibility of the MCHC is symptomatic of a larger problem in which UIUC’s administration is deploying health care and health insurance as a mechanism to exert power and surveillance on its graduate student population, and thus assert its position of authority. The project includes a proposal for continued research.
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