Embodying borders : a migrant's right to health, universal rights and local policies / edited by Laura Ferrero, Chiara Quagliariello and Ana Cristina Vargas.

"Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded. Access to medical care for migrants is a fundamental right wh...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Ferrero, Laura (Editor), Quagliariello, Chiara (Editor), Vargas, Ana Cristina (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2021.
Series:EASA series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Laura Ferrero, Chiara Quagliariello and Ana Cristina Vargas
  • Framing deservingness in health care : media constructions of unauthorised youth in the United States / Anahí Viladrich
  • Constructing the undeserving citizen : the embodied consequences of immigration enforcement in the US South / Nolan Kline
  • Structural violence, tuberculosis and healthcare processes among Bolivian immigrants in Buenos Aires and São Paulo / Alejandro Goldberg, Cássio Silveira, Tatiane Barbosa and Denise Martin
  • women, migration and health : an inquiry into gender-based violence and the limits of maternity care services in southern European borderlands / Chiara Quagliariello
  • Roma and the right to health : a transnational approach to structural vulnerability / Pietro Cingolani
  • Mental health as politics : exploring mental health services among Syrian refugees in Lebanon / Hala Kerbage and Filippo Marranconi
  • From cultures to persons : intercultural mediation in the Italian healthcare system / Ana Cristina Vargas
  • 'Community welfare' : community-based networks as migrant health promoters / Laura Ferrero
  • Afterword. Forced migration, state violence and the right to health / Daniela DeBono.