Healthcare Reforms and the Creation of Ex‐/Included Categories of Patients — “Irregular Migrants” and the “Undesirable” in the French Healthcare System

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9954971
AutoresJoke Geeraert (0000-0002-6092-4809, Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques, autor de correspondencia), Jérémy Geeraert (IRIS Paris)
Año2017
Volumen56
Número2
Páginas68-81
Fecha de publicación2017-10-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/imig.12405
OpenAlexW2765754464
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas32

This article reconstructs the socio‐historical processes that have led to the formal inclusion and marginalization of “irregular migrants” in the French public health insurance system and the parallel legal production of exclusion of a share of this group. It interrogates the binary inclusion/exclusion in the field of healthcare linking it to the logic of sovereignty and governmentality in a stratified society. It shows how these processes have led to unequal health practices and increased obstacles to accessing health insurance and healthcare providers, and, consequently, has resulted in the exclusion of a share of this group from the regular healthcare system. These two levels of discrimination are illustrated using empirical research on departments in French public hospitals that have been designed to enable access to care for individuals without insurance ( Permanence d'accès aux soins de santé, or PASS : health care access units)

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Governmentality · Health care · Health insurance · Healthcare system · Inclusion (mineral · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Healthcare Systems and Practices · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Public Administration