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.

• ForewordCatherine Panter-BrickIntroductionNadia El-Shaarawi and Stéphanie LarchanchéPart I: Challenging the Borders of BelongingChapter 1. Must the Tired and the Poor “Stand on Their Own Two Feet”? Tools for Analyzing How Migrants’ Deservingness is ReckonedSarah S. Willen and Jennifer CookChapter 2. Wanting to “Be Seen”: Experiences of Migration, Gender and Motherhood in Johannesburg, South AfricaBecky Walker and Elsa OliveiraChapter 3. Migration or Forced Displacement?: The Complex Choices of Climate Change and Disaster Migrants in Shishmaref, Alaska and Nanumea, TuvaluElizabeth Marino and Heather LazrusPart II: Challenging the Borders of CareChapter 4. Translating Fanon in the Italian Context: Rethinking the Ethics of Treatment in Psychiatry  Cristiana GiordanoChapter 5. Precarity, Chronic Illness, and Borders of Care Confronting Immigrants in Paris, FranceCarolyn Sargent, Laurent Zelek and Anne FestaChapter 6. Doctors Challenging Borders: The Dilemmas and Successes of Syrian-American Medical HumanitariansRania Kassab SweisPart III: Challenging Policy Borders Chapter 7. Citizenship for Sale and Legality Foreclosed: Immigration, Financialization, and the US Health Care SystemNolan KlineChapter 8. Narrative Testimony and Political Potentiality: Surviving Family Separation, Advocating for Migrants’ Rights and WellbeingKristin YarrisAfterwordHeide CastañedaIndex

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