Descripción del proyecto
Abordar la desigualdad en la atención a la maternidad de las migrantes indocumentadas
Las mujeres embarazadas indocumentadas constituyen un grupo demográfico cada vez más numeroso, pero pocos estudios se centran en su acceso a la atención a la maternidad en la Unión Europea (UE). Por desgracia, los deficientes indicadores de salud materna de estas mujeres plantean retos éticos y médicos a los servicios de maternidad de primera línea en las zonas fronterizas de la UE. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto EUBorderCare, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, pretende analizar la política de atención a la maternidad y la gobernanza de la migración en España, Francia, Grecia e Italia. Se revisarán los fundamentos morales de la prestación de asistencia sanitaria a migrantes indocumentados en las densas zonas fronterizas de Europa. En concreto, en el proyecto se combinará la investigación empírica y documental con métodos audiovisuales innovadores. Sus conclusiones pueden servir de base para fundamentar cambios políticos y facilitar la creación de sistemas sanitarios integradores, independientemente de la situación migratoria.
Objetivo
EU Border Care is a comparative study of the politics of maternity care among undocumented migrants on the EU’s peripheries. Empirical analysis of personal and institutional relations of care and control in the context of pregnancy and childbirth will support an innovative critique of the moral rationale underpinning healthcare delivery and migration governance in some of Europe’s most densely crossed borderlands in France, Greece, Italy and Spain.
Unlike other categories of migrants, undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon, yet few social science or public health studies address EU migrant maternity care. This subject has urgent implications: whilst recent geopolitical events in North Africa and the Middle East have triggered a quantifiable increase in pregnant women entering the EU in an irregular situation, poor maternal health indicators among such women represent ethical and medical challenges to which frontline maternity services located in EU borderlands have to respond, often with little preparation or support from national and European central authorities.
Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in maternity wards located in French Guiana and Mayotte (Overseas France), the North Aegean and Attica (Greece), Sicily (Italy), and Ceuta and Melilla (Spain), my project will trace the networks of maternity care delivery in peripheries facing an increase of immigration flows, and characterised by structural social and economic underinvestment. My team will investigate migrant maternity from three interlinked research perspectives: migrant women, healthcare delivery staff, and regional institutional agencies. Empirical and desk research, combined with creative audio-visual methods, will document migrant maternity on EU borderlands to address wider questions about identity and belonging, citizenship and sovereignty, and humanitarianism and universalism in Europe today.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
40126 Bologna
Italia