Suchergebnisse

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

This article examines how Comorian pregnant women in Mayotte, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, came to embody an unwanted presence as irregular migrants due to their children's and their own potential claims to belonging, while they are entitled by law to access perinatal and maternal care. This article argues that framing undocumented pregnant women as a threat led to significant shortcomings in perinatal care delivery and that those shortages in turn worsened access to healthcare services for the Mahoran-French population as well, exacerbating feelings of resentment towards Comorians. Drawing on this case-study, the article foregrounds the malleability of the CARIN criteria (Control, Attitude, Reciprocity, Identity and Need), a theoretical tool to analyse ideas related to deservingness, by demonstrating how actors re-think the meanings of 'identity', 'control', 'attitude' and 'need' and assign different weights to them in the context of a dominant frame of undeservingness.

AbstractDrawing on Foucauldian biopolitics, Max Weber's and Hannah Arendt's understandings of bureaucracy, and Achille Mbembe's theoretical insights into necropolitical power, I propose the notion of humanitarian bureaucracy to account for the involvement of medical personnel in the summary deportations of pregnant Comorian women in Mayotte, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean. In addition to their usual consultations, hospital midwives are asked to assess the health of pregnant women arrested at sea in order to state whether they can be lawfully detained, while deportations happen within hours owing to the specificities of this postcolonial migration regime. The notion of humanitarian bureaucracy traces how a series of bureaucratic acts, duly sanctioned by qualified professionals, performs a minimal and fragmented biopolitical surveillance that neutralizes the question of responsibility and rejects the racialized Other into a liminal space between failing to "make live" and avoiding to "let die." The article argues that humanitarian bureaucracy represents an ambivalent power, stemming from biopolitics yet producing necropolitics through processes of racialization. The article draws on three months of fieldwork conducted in Mayotte in 2017 and analyzes midwives' discourses and bureaucratic practices as materialized by the medical certificates they deliver in the context of these assessments.

This photo-essay results from three-months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in the north of Africa, in the framework of the ERC-funded project EU Border Care. It explores how, beyond a highly polarized debate, migration forms the very social fabric of the city. Melilla's economic fate is highly dependent on both regional border crossings and international migration. The 'migration industry' employs border guards and police forces but also social workers, translators, and healthcare professionals. Administratively, this border city can be characterized as a 'central periphery': while some sectors, such as health and education, depend more directly on the central Spanish government than it is the case for other regions, Melilla presents at the same time distinct tax and migration regimes. A regional migration regime facilitates mobility between the enclave and the neighboring Moroccan region of Nador as the movement of people and goods ensures the city's daily life. This photo-essay illustrates how formal borders create sharp cuts within geographical and social continuities. ; The work was supported by the European Research Council-funded project EU Border Care

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.

This 'state-of-the art' article on the role of deservingness in governing migrants' access to social services situates our themed section's contribution to the literature at the intersection between the study of street-level bureaucracy and practices of internal bordering through social policy. Considering the increasing relevance of migration control post-entry, we review the considerations that guide the local delivery of social services. Among others, moral ideas about a claimant's worthiness to receive social benefits and services guide policy implementation. But while ideas of deservingness help to understand how perceptions of migrants' claiming play out in practice, we observe limited use of the concept in street-level bureaucracy research. Drawing on theorisations from welfare attitudinal research, we demonstrate the salience of deservingness attitudes in understanding the dynamics of local social service delivery to migrant clients.