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Book Synopsis Examining which actors determine undocumented migrants’ access to healthcare on the ground, this volume looks at what happens in the daily interactions between administrative personnel, healthcare professionals and migrant patients in healthcare institutions across Europe. Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus. The volume documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a health-related deservingness become increasingly important, producing hierarchies that undermine a universal right to healthcare.
Trade Review “The notion that ‘even health systems that are considered “universal” restrict the access’ of migrants is the main takeaway from Borders across Healthcare, an important, well thought-out collection of nine essays. Published in 2020, the collection was written and compiled before the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, far from diminishing its relevance, the timing makes the book prescient and even more insightful. ... The hope is that this volume will be read widely, and these questions will be taken up by practitioners and researchers across Europe.” • Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Nina Sahraoui
Part I: Borders Spring into Healthcare: Re-configuring Access, Structures and Care Provision Itself
Chapter 1. National and International Approaches to the Right to Healthcare for Undocumented Migrants
Danielle da Costa Leite Borges and Caterina Francesca Guidi
Chapter 2. Tinkering Care at the Border: When Calais’s Public Hospital Is Challenged by Migratory Policies
Majorie Gerbier-Aublanc
Chapter 3. Tensions between Restrictive Migratory Policies and an Inclusive Prevention Programme: An Ethnography of a Biomedical HIV Prevention Programme among Sub-Saharan Africa Immigrants in the Paris Area
Appendix: PrEP - Definition, Terms of Use and Access
Séverine Carillon and Anne Gosselin
Chapter 4. The Positive Othering of Young Muslim Male ‘Refugees’ as Ideal Elderly Care Workers in the German Media Discourse
Caterina Rohde-Abuba
Part II: Understanding the Grey Zone between Legislation and Admission Practices: (Un)Deservingness in Action
Chapter 5. Belonging to Everyone, for the Use of Everyone? Ethnography of (a) Struggle for Healthcare in Spain
Marta Pérez, Irene Rodríguez-Newey and Nicolas Petel-Rochette
Chapter 6. Humanitarian Exceptions in Hostile Environments: Institutional Tensions and Everyday Healthcare Practices for Migrants with Irregular Status in Italy
Roberta Perna
Chapter 7. The Local Construction of Vulnerability: A Comparison between Two Associations in Paris and in Rome
Cécilia Santilli
Chapter 8. Introducing Gender into the Theorization of Health-related (Un)Deservingness: Ethnographic Insights from Athens and Melilla
Cynthia Malakasis and Nina Sahraoui
Chapter 9. Moral Economy of Exclusion: Cases of the Childbirth on the Margins of Regularity in the EU
Olena Fedyuk
Conclusion
Nina Sahraoui
Index
