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.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Catherine Panter-Brick
Introduction
Nadia El-Shaarawi and Stéphanie Larchanché
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 Castañeda
Index
About the Author :
Nadia El-Shaarawi is an Assistant Professor of Global Studies at Colby College. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist who specializes in transnational forced migration, humanitarian intervention, and mental health in the Middle East and North Africa.
Review :
“This is a welcome and timely addition to the scholarly literature on migration and health.” • Charles Watters, University of Sussex
