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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

1. Introduction: from the empirical study of care to feminist care ethics -- 2. Theoretical framings: Feminist standpoints, gendered political economy and new approaches to care ethics -- 3. Setting the scene: A gendered and transnational political economy of older-age care -- 4. Entering the older-age care sector -- 5. Precarious care jobs in neoliberal times -- 6. Lived precariousness through body and mind -- 7. Racism, the industry's blind spot -- 8. Negotiating the future, within and out of care -- 9. Social reproduction and care ethics

While the feminisation of transnational migrant labour is now a firmly ingrained feature of the contemporary global economy, the specific experiences and understandings of labour in a range of gendered sectors of global and regional labour markets still require comparative and ethnographic attention. This book adopts a particular focus on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious – domestic work and care work in private homes and institutional settings, cleaning work in hospitals, call centre labour, informal trade – with the goal of understanding the aspirations and mobilities of migrants and their families across generations in relation to questions of gender and labour. Bringing together rich, fieldwork-based case studies on the experiences of migrants from the Philippines, Bolivia, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Mauritius, Brazil and India, among others, who live and work in countries within Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, Gender, Work and Migration goes beyond a unique focus on migration to explore the implications of gendered labour patterns for migrants' empowerment and experiences of social mobility and immobility, their transnational involvement, and wider familial and social relationships.

1.Introduction -- 2. Precarity, Vulnerability, Intersectionality: Toward a Feminist Fusion? -- 3. War, Migration and Gender: Challenging Structural Inequality -- 4. Migration, Gender and Health: Women's Rights Perspective -- 5. Framing GBV and Migration: Policy Perspectives -- 6. The Gender of Canadian Legal and Policy Immigration and GBV Frameworks -- 7. Between the law and a hard place; framing the trafficking victim -- 8. Integration or resilience – an institutional perspective on NGOs assisting refugees and asylum seekers in Norway -- 9. Policing GBV in a Multi-Cultural Society.-10. Agency and Empowerment: Migrant Women and Strategies of Resistance -- 11. Women's Resources in the Face of GBV: Cross-National perspectives.

With contributions from a diverse array of international scholars, this edited volume offers a renewed understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) by examining its social and political dimensions in migration contexts. This book engages micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis by foregrounding a conceptualization of GBV that addresses both its interpersonal and structural causes. Chapters explore how GBV frameworks and migration management intersect, bringing to the forefront the specific inequalities these intersections produce for migrant women. Drawing upon several disciplines, the authors engage in co-writing a critical engagement which proposes an original understanding of how the concepts of intersectionality, vulnerability and precarity speak to each other from a feminist perspective. This volume will be of interest to scholars/researchers and policymakers in Gender Studies, Migration and Refugee Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Trauma Studies, Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies. Jane Freedman is a Professor at the Universite of Paris 8 and Co-Director of the Paris Centre for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA). Her research engages feminist intersectional approaches to the study of migration. Publications include Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and A Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis (Routledge, 2017). Nina Sahraoui is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at the Paris Centre for Sociological and Political Research, CNRS. Among her recent publications are the monograph Racialised Workers and European Older-Age Care (Palgrave, 2019) and the edited volume Border Across Healthcare (Berghahn Books, 2020). Evangelia Tastsoglou is a Professor of Sociology and Global Development Studies at Saint Marys University in Halifax, Canada. Her research engages feminist intersectional perspectives on women, gender and various aspects of migration, violence and citizenship. Publications include Interrogating Gender, Violence, and the State in National and Transnational Contexts, Current Sociology Monograph Series (SAGE, 2016) and edited special issue on Gender, Violence and Forced Migration in Frontiers in Human Dynamics Refugees and Conflict (2021, Open Access).

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.

This powerful book explicates the many ways in which colonial encounters continue to shape forced migration, ever evolving with times and various geographical contexts. Bringing historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and criminologists together, the book presents examples of forced migration events and politics ranging from the 18th century to the practices and geopolitics of the present day. These case studies, covering Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and South America, are then put in dialogue with each other to propose new theoretical and real-world agendas for the field. As the pervasive legacies of colonialism continue to shape global politics, this unprecedented book moves beyond critique, ahistoricity and Eurocentrism in refugee and forced migration studies and establishes postcoloniality and forced migration as an important field of migration research