Sick and Vulnerable Migrants in French Public Hospitals. The Administrative and Budgetary Dimension of Un/Deservingness
Autor: | Jérémy Geeraert |
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Přispěvatelé: | Centre Marc Bloch (CMB), Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (MEAE)-Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung-Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 0507 social and economic geography Context (language use) Public administration migration [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences Denial Political science Health care 050602 political science & public administration Dimension (data warehouse) media_common business.industry 05 social sciences Rationing Deservingness public hospital healthcare system 0506 political science value of life Political Science and International Relations Public hospital Value of life business 050703 geography |
Zdroj: | Social Policy and Society Social Policy and Society, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021, pp.1-10. ⟨10.1017/s1474746420000767⟩ |
ISSN: | 1474-7464 1475-3073 |
Popis: | International audience; This article explores how staff in French public hospitals are indirectly involved in the governing of migration through healthcare. It unpacks the construction of differentiated values of life assigned to specific categories of vulnerable (authorised and unauthorised) migrants according to their perceived un/deservingness in context of budgetary restrictions. This context emphasises tensions between medical and administrative staff in the decision-making process regarding access to healthcare. The analysis rests upon empirical data (participant observations and semi-directed interviews) gathered in 'healthcare access units' located in public hospitals. Perceptions of un/deservingness lead to both healthcare rationing and healthcare denial and are built upon entangled criteria related to both migration status and budgetary concerns. These mechanisms reveal the administrative and budgetary dimensions that underlie the perceptions of health-related un/deservingness, which is linked to the costs of healthcare: the higher the costs, the less likely patients are to be designated to be deserving of healthcare. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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