Embodying Borders

Laura Ferrero is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology of the Middle East at Turin University and Research Fellow at the Fundamental Rights Laboratory in Turin.

• IntroductionLaura Ferrero, Chiara Quagliariello, Ana Cristina VargasPart I: Borders and InequalitiesChapter 1. Framing Deservingness in Health Care: Media Constructions of Unauthorised Youth in the United StatesAnahí ViladrichChapter 2. Constructing the Undeserving Citizen: The Embodied Consequences of Immigration Enforcement in the US SouthNolan KlineChapter 3. Structural Violence, Tuberculosis and Health-Care Processes: Bolivian Immigrants in Buenos Aires and São PauloAlejandro Goldberg, Cássio Silveira, Tatiane Barbosa and Denise MartinChapter 4. Women, Migration and Health: An Inquiry into Gender-Based Violence and the Limits of Maternity Care Services in Southern Europe's BorderlandsChiara QuagliarielloPart II: From the Individual to the CommunityChapter 5. Roma and the Right to Health: A Transnational Approach to Structural VulnerabilityPietro CingolaniChapter 6. Mental Health as Politics: Exploring Mental Health Services among Syrian Refugees in LebanonHala Kerbage and Filippo MarranconiChapter 7. Intercultural Mediation in the Italian Health-Care SystemAna Cristina VargasChapter 8. ‘Community Welfare’: Community-Based Networks as Migrant Health PromotersLaura FerreroAfterword: Forced Migration, State Violence, and the Right to HealthDaniela DeBonoIndex

“Through a dialogue between medical anthropology and human rights, the contributions provide a comparative and descriptive assessment of the many different ways in which migration policies both at macro- and micro-levels hinder migrants access to health care in the USA and at the southern border of Europe.” • Barbara Sorgoni, University of Turin