Overview

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 which is often ignored. The book provides a critical understanding of the social reality in which social inequalities are grounded and offers the opportunity to show that right to health does not correspond uniquely with access to healthcare.

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Author:   Laura Ferrero ,  Ana Cristina Vargas ,  Chiara Quagliariello ,  Daniela DeBono
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   41
ISBN:  

9781789209259

ISBN 10:   1789209250
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   14 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Laura Ferrero, Chiara Quagliariello, Ana Cristina Vargas Part I: Borders and Inequalities Chapter 1. Framing Deservingness in Health Care: Media Constructions of Unauthorised Youth in the United States Anahi Viladrich Chapter 2. Constructing the Undeserving Citizen: The Embodied Consequences of Immigration Enforcement in the US South Nolan Kline Chapter 3. Structural Violence, Tuberculosis and Health-Care Processes: Bolivian Immigrants in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo Alejandro Goldberg, Cassio Silveira, Tatiane Barbosa and Denise Martin Chapter 4. Women, Migration and Health: An Inquiry into Gender-Based Violence and the Limits of Maternity Care Services in Southern Europe's Borderlands Chiara Quagliariello Part II: From the Individual to the Community Chapter 5. Roma and the Right to Health: A Transnational Approach to Structural Vulnerability Pietro Cingolani Chapter 6. Mental Health as Politics: Exploring Mental Health Services among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Hala Kerbage and Filippo Marranconi Chapter 7. Intercultural Mediation in the Italian Health-Care System Ana Cristina Vargas Chapter 8. 'Community Welfare': Community-Based Networks as Migrant Health Promoters Laura Ferrero Afterword: Forced Migration, State Violence, and the Right to Health Daniela DeBono Index

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Through a dialogue between medical anthropology and human rights, the contributions provide a comparative and descriptive assessment of the many different ways in which migration policies both at macro- and micro-levels hinder migrants access to health care in the USA and at the southern border of Europe. * Barbara Sorgoni, University of Turin

Through a dialogue between medical anthropology and human rights, the contributions provide a comparative and descriptive assessment of the many different ways in which migration policies both at macro- and micro-levels hinder migrants access to health care in the USA and at the southern border of Europe. Barbara Sorgoni, University of Turin

Author Information

Laura Ferrero is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology of the Middle East at Turin University and Research Fellow at the Fundamental Rights Laboratory in Turin.

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