Main description:

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.

Contents:

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

Anahi Viladrich

Chapter 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 Sao Paulo

Alejandro Goldberg, Cassio Silveira, Tatiane Barbosa and Denise Martin

Chapter 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