Descrizione del progetto
Affrontare le disuguaglianze nell’assistenza alla maternità per le migranti prive di documenti
Le donne incinte prive di documenti sono un gruppo demografico in crescita, eppure pochi studi si concentrano sul loro accesso all’assistenza alla maternità nell’UE. Purtroppo, gli scarsi indicatori di salute materna di queste donne pongono sfide etiche e mediche ai servizi di maternità di prima linea nelle zone di confine dell’UE. In questo contesto, il progetto EUBorderCare, finanziato dal CER, mira ad analizzare le politiche di assistenza alla maternità e la governance della migrazione in Francia, Grecia, Italia e Spagna. Verranno esaminate le motivazioni morali alla base della fornitura di assistenza sanitaria agli immigrati privi di documenti nelle zone di confine europee densamente attraversate. In particolare, il progetto combinerà la ricerca empirica e a tavolino con metodi audiovisivi innovativi. I suoi risultati hanno il potenziale per dare forma a cambiamenti politici e facilitare la creazione di sistemi sanitari inclusivi, indipendentemente dallo status migratorio.
Obiettivo
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.
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC-STG - Starting GrantIstituzione ospitante
40126 Bologna
Italia