Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems

Challenging (Im)mobilities in Healthcare

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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In light of the ongoing struggle faced by migrants and refugees trying to access healthcare, this thought-provoking book tackles key issues at the intersection of mobility and health. It critically engages with the bureaucratic, economic and cultural barriers faced by these groups, arguing that a sedentary bias persists in national health systems.Chapters examine the challenges of providing healthcare to people on the move, tackling issues ranging from registration and border control, to abortion access and mobility justice during the COVID-19 pandemic. Expert authors combine theoretical approaches with in-depth case studies from continents including Asia, Europe and South America, critically analysing modern healthcare systems within the context of heightened human mobility and climate change. In addition to highlighting major difficulties, the book explores spaces of resistance and opportunities for change. This interdisciplinary book is a vital tool for students and scholars in medical and political anthropology, health and migration, sociology, and geography. The inclusion of practical experience and contributions from healthcare professionals also makes this an important read for medical students and educators interested in health access and provision.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-09
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035324972

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Edited by Luca Follis, Associate Professor in Criminology, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Sussex, Karolina Follis, Professor in Politics and Society, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University and Nicola Burns, Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK

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‘Bringing together contributions from international healthcare practice and academia within a mobility justice framework, this collection offers a powerful contribution to our understanding of the intersections of people on the move, border regimes and healthcare systems. The authors skilfully and sensitively elucidate not only the harms generated by sedentarist approaches to healthcare but also how these are being opposed, offering timely alternatives for mobile health futures.’

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsA poem by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan xiiIntroduction: Mobile patients and sedentary health systems 1Karolina Follis, Luca Follis and Nicola BurnsPART I HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURES2 HIV, citizenship and bordering mechanisms in Berlin 17Paweł Lewicki3 Emotional borderwork, a hostile affective milieu andeveryday resistance in the British National Health Service 29Jessica L. Potter and Isabel Meier4 Registration without documentation: an exploration of thereluctance to register patients without documents in NorthEast London 42Kitty Worthing5 Making health services work for seasonal agricultureworkers in Huelva, Spain 55Angels Escriva, Nora Komposch, and Natalia Ribas-MateosPART II POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE OF MIGRANT HEALTH6 Medicalising borders, bordering healthcare: governingasylum-seekers’ mobility and welfare at the Greek hotspots 70Danai Avgeri7 Expanding refugee access to healthcare and governingrefugee mobility: conflicting rationales in a single field 84Souad Osseiran8 Looking at the interplay of migration, healthcare, andborder control: the Italian case of “Ferry Quarantine” 95Carlo Botrugno9 The role of (im)mobilities in migrants’ experiences ofpregnancy and reproductive injustice 107Gwyneth LonerganPART III TECHNOLOGIES OF RESISTANCE ANDSURVEILLANCE10 Not quite an emancipatory mobility: obstacles inabortion access for Ukrainian refugees within the Polishreproductive health care system 123Monika Ewa Kaminska11 Beyond Covid Digital Data Infrastructure: experiencesfrom rural southern Ecuador 139Fu-Yu Chang12 Public health measures as bordering: health and mobilityjustice during pandemic times in Kuwait 151Sajida Z. AllyPART IV MOBILE HEALTH FUTURES13 Unsheltered (im)mobilities and access to healthcare inFrankfurt am Main 169Corinna A. Di Stefano14 The universalising medium has stopped universalising:the vertical and horizontal retrenchment of citizenship inausterity Britain 183Piyush Pushkar and Louise Tomkow15 Green borders? Challenging paradoxical NHS agendas 197Jessica Beresford and Stephanie Sodero16 Afterword: Mobile patients in sedentary healthcaresystems: reflections from a geographer 210Anthony C. GartrellIndex 219