Embodying Borders: A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies (EASA Series Book 41)

"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"--Publisher's description 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 "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"-- Provided by publisher Contents Introduction PART I. Borders and Inequalities Chapter 1. Framing Deservingness in Health Care Chapter 2. Constructing the Undeserving Citizen Chapter 3. Structural Violence, Tuberculosis and Health-Care Processes Chapter 4. Women, Migration and Health PART II. From the Individual to the Community Chapter 5. Roma and the Right to Health Chapter 6. Mental Health as Politics Chapter 7. Intercultural Mediation in the Italian Health-Care System Chapter 8. ‘Community Welfare’ Afterword Index