All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, is the result of a widely shared call for chapters which has brought together most recent and relevant research across Europe around the moral economy of the healthcare-migration nexus. The adventure of this edited volume started while I was a post-doctoral researcher at the European University Institute in Florence within the EU Border Care project. I thank the PI, Vanessa Grotti, and my colleagues Cynthia Malakasis and Chiara Quagliariello, for the many conversations around our respective fieldworks. My gratitude equally goes to Laëtitia Atlani-Duault, director of the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris that hosted me as a visiting researcher while I was working on this publication project. A heartfelt thank you, finally, to Jordan Ajouaou who designed, created and photographed the artistic installation that features on the cover of this book and that elegantly captures what we collectively explore in this volume.
FundingThis edited volume was initiated during my time as postdoctoral researcher within the EU Border Care project (grant number 638259), funded by the European Research Council and directed by Vanessa Grotti at the European University Institute. The volume is open access thanks to this ERC funding.This open access library edition is supported by the European University Institute. Not for resale. Howard and Wolffers 2013; Winters et al. 2018). We are interested in the ideas, norms and values that underpin these entitlements and actors' practices in the field. Entitlement to healthcare for those who do not formally belong to the nation-state and whose presence is regarded by the state as undesired (from being undocumented to various precarious legal statuses) raises ethical, legal, moral and public health concerns, to name but a few. From the perspective of the state and its migration policies, unauthorized international mobility poses a challenge to sovereign border control. Chauvin and Garcés-Mascareñas consider that 'the state appears to validate breaches of its own sovereignty by recognizing people and processes seemingly located beyond its control ' (2012: 253−54). Rather than clear-cut binaries, degrees of inclusion and exclusion describe the lived experience of irregularity more adequately. The notion of differential inclusion (Mezzadra and Neilson 2013) analyses such processes as serving migration regimes' work of 'filtering, selecting and channelling ' (ibid. 2013: 165), and thus disciplining and controlling, in Foucauldian terms. The political economy that sustains Mezzadra
Borders Spring into Healthcare: Revised Legislations, Reconfigured Structures and Shifting DiscoursesAs illustrated by the recent manifestations of the healthcare/migration tension described above, borders cut acr...