Migrant and refugee access to health systems : challenging (im)mobilities in healthcare / 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).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Follis, Luca, editor.

Follis, Karolina, editor.

Burns, Nicola, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Medical care.

Immigrants.

Refugees--Medical care.

Refugees.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar, 2025.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: A poem by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Introduction: Mobile patients and sedentary health systems / Karolina Follis, Luca Follis and Nicola Burns

Part I: Health infrastructures

2. Hiv, citizenship and bordering mechanisms in Berlin / Paweł Lewicki

3. Emotional borderwork, a hostile affective milieu and everyday resistance in the British national health service / Jessica L. Potter and Isabel Meier

4. Registration without documentation: An exploration of the reluctance to register patients without documents in north east London / Kitty Worthing

5. Making health services work for seasonal agriculture workers in huelva, Spain / Angels Escriva, Nora Komposch, and Natalia Ribas-Mateos

Part II: Politics and governance of migrant health

6. Medicalising borders, bordering healthcare: Governing asylum-seekers' mobility and welfare at the greek hotspots / Danai Avgeri

7. Expanding refugee access to healthcare and governing refugee mobility: Conflicting rationales in a single field / Souad Osseiran

8. Looking at the interplay of migration, healthcare, and border control: The Italian case of "ferry quarantine" / Carlo Botrugno

9. The role of (im)mobilities in migrants' experiences of pregnancy and reproductive injustice / Gwyneth Lonergan

Part III: Technologies of resistance and surveillance

10. Not quite an emancipatory mobility: Obstacles in abortion access for ukrainian refugees within the Polish reproductive health care system / Monika Ewa Kaminska

11. Beyond COVID digital data infrastructure: Experiences from rural southern ecuador / Fu-Yu Chang

12. Public health measures as bordering: Health and mobility justice during pandemic times in kuwait / Sajida Z. Ally

Part IV: Mobile health futures

13. Unsheltered (im)mobilities and access to healthcare in frankfurt am main / Corinna A. Di Stefano

14. The universalising medium has stopped universalising: The vertical and horizontal retrenchment of citizenship in austerity britain / Piyush Pushkar and Louise Tomkow

15. Green borders? Challenging paradoxical nhs agendas / Jessica Beresford and Stephanie Sodero

16. Afterword: Mobile patients in sedentary healthcare systems: Reflections from a geographer / Anthony C. Gartrell

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035324989 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.