Main description:

Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcend these boundaries, including border fortification, neoliberal agendas, and climate change. This volume explores these epistemic borders, recognizing the necessity of a new conversation about migration and health. Each of the empirically grounded chapters introduces readers to pressing questions of migration and health in diverse social, political, and geographical settings.

Contents:

Foreword

Catherine Panter-Brick

Introduction

Nadia El-Shaarawi and Stephanie Larchanche

Part I: Challenging the Borders of Belonging

Chapter 1. Must the Tired and the Poor "Stand on Their Own Two Feet"? Tools for Analyzing How Migrants' Deservingness is Reckoned

Sarah S. Willen and Jennifer Cook

Chapter 2. Wanting to "Be Seen": Experiences of Migration, Gender and Motherhood in Johannesburg, South Africa

Becky Walker and Elsa Oliveira

Chapter 3. Migration or Forced Displacement?: The Complex Choices of Climate Change and Disaster Migrants in Shishmaref, Alaska and Nanumea, Tuvalu

Elizabeth Marino and Heather Lazrus

Part II: Challenging the Borders of Care

Chapter 4. Translating Fanon in the Italian Context: Rethinking the Ethics of Treatment in Psychiatry

Cristiana Giordano

Chapter 5. Precarity, Chronic Illness, and Borders of Care Confronting Immigrants in Paris, France

Carolyn Sargent, Laurent Zelek and Anne Festa

Chapter 6. Doctors Challenging Borders: The Dilemmas and Successes of Syrian-American Medical Humanitarians

Rania Kassab Sweis

Part III: Challenging Policy Borders

Chapter 7. Citizenship for Sale and Legality Foreclosed: Immigration, Financialization, and the US Health Care System

Nolan Kline

Chapter 8. Narrative Testimony and Political Potentiality: Surviving Family Separation, Advocating for Migrants' Rights and Wellbeing

Kristin Yarris

Afterword

Heide Castaneda

Index