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How is health-related “deservingness” reckoned? Perspectives from unauthorized im/migrants in Tel Aviv

Willen, Sarah S.·2012·Social Science & Medicine
DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.033
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Do unauthorized im/migrants have a right to health? Do they deserve health care, or health protection, or access to the social determinants of good health? Are they party to prevailing social contracts, or does their exclusion from mainstream systems of health promotion, prevention, and care "make sense"? Questions like these, which generate considerable attention in multiple spheres of scholarship, policy, and public debate, revolve around an issue that merits substantially greater consideration among social scientists of health: health-related "deservingness." In addition to putting the issue of health-related deservingness squarely on the map as an object of analysis, this article further argues that we cannot focus solely on those with power, influence, and public voice. Rather, we also must investigate how deservingness is reckoned in relation to--and, furthermore, from the perspectives of-- unauthorized im/migrants and members of other groups commonly constructed in public and policy discourse as undeserving. Additionally, we must consider the complicated relationship between universalizing juridical arguments about formal entitlement to health rights, on one hand, and situationally specific, vernacular moral arguments about deservingness, on the other. The paper analyzes findings from a 29-month mixed-methods study conducted in Tel Aviv, Israel, that approached unauthorized im/migrants as subjects, rather than simply objects, of ethical deliberation. Participants' conc…

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Authors
Willen, S. S.
Venue
Social Science & Medicine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-03
Volume
74
Issue
6
Pages
812-821
ISSN
0277-9536
DOI
10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.033
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151
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Language
en
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  • Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • National Science Foundation (0135425)
  • Social Science Research Council
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation

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