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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' 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 / 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

This book brings an intersectional perspective to border studies, drawing on case studies from across the world to consider the ways in which notably gender and race dynamics change the ways in which people cross international borders, and how diffuse and virtual borders impact on migrants' experiences.By bringing together 11 ethnographies, the book demonstrates the necessity for in-depth empirical research to understand the class, gender and race inequalities that shape contemporary borders. In doing so the volume sheds light on how migration control produces gendered violence at physical borders but also through the politics of vulnerability across borders and social boundaries. It places embodied narratives at the heart of the analysis which sheds light on the agency and the many patterns of resistance of migrants themselves.As such, it will appeal to scholars of migration and diaspora studies with interests in gender