Project description DEENESFRITPL A medical perspective of migrant camps Most migrants heading for Europe are young and healthy. But they are exposed to serious risks during their journey and even as they reach the host countries. These risks include the living conditions in migrant and refugee camps. Focusing on humanitarian healthcare in Europe, the EU-funded HeBo project will conduct an ethnographic investigation of governmental and non-governmental healthcare facilities at migrant camps, hotspots and informal settlements on crucial sites at European borders. It will study migrants' access to healthcare, the connection between the right to basic healthcare and EU border policies, and the implementation of healthcare practices under existing migration management in the EU. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The management of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers is one the most complex issues the EU is facing: HeBo aims to tackle it from the perspective of healthcare implementation in migrant camps and informal settlements situated within the European territory. In such spaces, both healthcare actions and their omission assume specific meanings, including the form of border management technology. HeBo thus focuses in particular on the following main research objects: A) the management of migrants in contemporary Europe through the lens of the right to healthcare, B) the relationship between the implementation of the right to healthcare and European border policies, and C) the implementation of the right to health as a translation of the politics of life and the differentiated judgement of lives underlying the current migration management in the EU. While the implementation of healthcare in humanitarian contexts has been largely studied in extra-European countries, it remains understudied for camps and, in particular, informal settlements within the European space. Through ethnographic inquiry on governmental and non-governmental healthcare units, HeBo focuses on three crucial sites across the EU: the islands of Lampedusa (Italy) and Lesbos (Greece), and the area of Calais (France). HeBo will build on the expertise that Dr. Alunni developed in his previous work on healthcare within Roma camps in Italy. Professor Didier Fassin, who will supervise HeBo, is a leading scholar in the field of humanitarianism and on issues of power and health inequalities, and will therefore support Dr. Alunni with his experience. Due to the excellent quality of its infrastructure, scholarly research and staff, the IRIS (Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Social Sciences) at the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) will constitute the most appropriate academic environment for Dr. Alunni to become a leading social science scholar in the European Research Area. Fields of science social sciencessociologydemographyhuman migrations Keywords health healthcare border migration Europe camps informal settlements asylum refugees asylum-seekers migrants right to health EU policies NGOs public healthcare systems politics of life Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Topic(s) MSCA-IF-2018 - Individual Fellowships Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-IF-2018 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) Coordinator ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES Net EU contribution € 184 707,84 Address 54 bd raspail 75270 Paris France See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
