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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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
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
Anahí Viladrich
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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 São Paulo
Alejandro Goldberg, Cássio Silveira, Tatiane Barbosa and Denise Martin
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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
Laura Ferrero is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology of the Middle East at Turin University and Research Fellow at the Fundamental Rights Laboratory in Turin.
