The clinical gaze in the practice of migrant health: Mexican migrants in the United States

► Explores the sociocultural context of interactions between unauthorized Mexican migrants and their health care providers in the US. ► Analyses the social forces that lead well-meaning clinicians to blame patients for their suffering. ► Examines the lenses of ethnic biological difference and individual behavior utilized by clinicians to understand disease. ► Reorients the focus of cultural competency toward the structural and cultural barriers found within biomedicine itself.