Battling for Survival, Battling for Moral Clarity
“Illegality” and Illness in the Everyday Struggles of Undocumented HIV+ Women Migrant Workers in Tel Aviv
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9952702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anat Rosenthal (0000-0003-4641-6645, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 134-156 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Migration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2007.00413.x |
| OpenAlex | W1972026086 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 16 |
Undocumented migrant workers living with HIV/AIDS in Israel, like their counterparts elsewhere, are doubly abject due to their lack of legal status on one hand and their ill health on the other. Unlike Israeli citizens living with HIV/AIDS, who can access an array of state funded treatments and support services, undocumented migrant workers living with HIV/AIDS are marginalized both by the state's exclusive immigration regime and by its efforts to shake off responsibility for their health needs. At the same time, HIV treatment and care are generally unavailable in migrants' countries of origin. Despite the state's exclusionary orientation and in contradiction of official policies, certain forms of HIV treatment are available to undocumented migrants through the day‐to‐day efforts of a small array of activist Israeli NGOs, (state‐employed) doctors, and state officials. The tension between these simultaneous, oppositional processes of exclusion and inclusion generate a “gray area”— a zone of competing values, claims and interests‐ in which undocumented migrants living with HIV/AIDS and these other stakeholders search for new options and possibilities while continually taking pains to protect their own varied, and often competing, interests. Actors thus constantly bargain with laws, health policies, and one another in a collective battle not only over migrants' chances of survival, but also over the rationality and the morality underlying the state's “and their own” decisions and choices. Anchored within this complex, indeterminate zone, the present article draws upon ethnographic field research conducted among undocumented HIV+ migrant women in Tel Aviv to explore some of the stakes, mechanisms, and outcomes of these complicated, high stakes negotiation processes
Criminology · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Health care · Immigration · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues
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Migrations et circulations thérapeutiques
"Called to "Ankle Alley
Transnational activities and aspirations of irregular migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands
How is health-related "deservingness" reckoned? Perspectives from unauthorized im/migrants in Tel Aviv
Performing deservingness. Humanitarian health care provision for migrants in Germany
Health workers' perceptions of access to care for children and pregnant women with precarious immigration status
Fragile Fabric
Do "Illegal" Im/migrants Have a Right to Health? Engaging Ethical Theory as Social Practice at a Tel Aviv Open Clinic
Putting Band-Aids on Things That Need Stitches
Suffering and its professional transformation
‘My fear is to fall in love again…’ How HIV-positive African women survive in London
Birthing ?Invisible? Children
Health Care as a National Right? The Development of Health Care Services for Migrant Workers in Israel
Undocumented Latin American Immigrants and U.S. Health Services
Migrant Women in the Context of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
Foreign Workers in Israel
Foreign Workers in Israel
Migrant Women in the Context of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
To See and Not be Seen
Migration and Aids
Temporary and Illegal Labour Migration
Health care and illegality
Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context
Perspectives on labour migration in Israel
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.73 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |