Borders Across Healthcare
Subtitle: Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated; Berghahn Books
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781789207415
Description: "Examining which actors determine undocumented migrants' access to healthcare on the ground, this volume looks at what happens in the daily interactions between administrative personnel, healthcare professionals and migrant patients in healthcare institutions across Europe. Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus. The volume documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a health-related deservingness become increasingly important, producing hierarchies that undermine a universal right to healthcare"--