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dc.contributor.authorGROTTI, Vanessa
dc.contributor.authorMALAKASIS, Cynthia Helen
dc.contributor.authorQUAGLIARIELLO, Chiara
dc.contributor.authorSAHRAOUI, Nina
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-11T14:05:55Z
dc.date.available2019-03-11T14:05:55Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationSocial science & medicine, 2019, Vol. 222, pp. 11-19en
dc.identifier.issn0277-9536
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/61745
dc.descriptionAvailable online: 18 December 2018
dc.description.abstractIn Greece, Italy, and Spain, austerity policies combined with the structural density of migration flows have had concrete social and material manifestations in the delivery of public health care. Through our ethnographic case studies in Lampedusa and southeastern Sicily, Melilla, and Athens, we examine the maternity care offered to migrant patients in the midst and the aftermath of the so-called "migration crisis" in state and non-state structures. Research was conducted in Athens and southeastern Sicily from August 2016 to August 2017; in Melilla from August 2016 to October 2016 and in January 2017; and in Lampedusa from August 2016 to January 2017. Data collected consist in semi-structured interviews and long-term ethnographic observations. The article explores whether and how the understanding or the labeling of the maternity care of migrants as an emergency within a context of professed crisis generates new norms of care within health-care delivery. Our findings suggest a) the adoption of solutions or practices that in the past might have been considered urgent, ad hoc, or creative; b) their normalization, deeply connected to the wider social landscape of these European peripheries and c) the institutionalization of humanitarianism in the context of these practices. Our research points out temporalities of emergency against the background of a professed migration crisis. In the context of austerity-driven underfunding, temporary solutions become entrenched, producing a lasting emergency. Yet, we argue that "emergency" can, at some point, generate practices of resistance that undermine, subtly yet significantly, its own normalization.en
dc.description.sponsorshipERC funded Project EU BORDER CARE ‘Intimate Encounters in EU Borderlands: Migrant Maternity, Sovereignty and the Politics of Care on Europe’s Periphery’ (2015-2020) Grant number 638259
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/638259/EU
dc.relation.ispartofSocial science & medicineen
dc.relation.ispartofseries[EU BORDER CARE]en
dc.relation.urihttp://eubordercare.eu/
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleTemporalities of emergency : migrant pregnancy and healthcare networks in Southern European borderlandsen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.12.022
dc.identifier.volume222en
dc.identifier.startpage11en
dc.identifier.endpage19en


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