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The right to healthcare for irregular migrants in Sweden: a dilemma for the universal model and the moral economy
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Social Work (SA).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6182-7488
2014 (English)In: The Integration and protection of immigrants: Canadian and Scandinavian critiques / [ed] Paul Van Aerschot, Paticia Daenzer, Ashgate, 2014, p. 139-153Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The objective of this chapter is to explore Swedish policies related to health care for irregular migrants residing in Sweden. Accordingly, policies in that field will be outlined along with criticism and arguments voiced by advocacy groups as well as enacted changes, most salient in the adoption of a new law which came into force in July 2013. Under this law, irregular migrants have a certain and limited right to health care. Taking into consideration the acknowledged strong link between immigration, integration and welfare policies (Brochmann and Hagelund 2011), this chapter will discuss health care policies in light of the general Swedish welfare policy as well as the policies of migration and integration. Some possible interpretations of ‘what is at stake’ will be offered and it will be argued that Sweden seems to find itself in a dilemma involving how to respond to the presence of irregular migrants. This presence challenges the ‘territorially bounded state-centric model’ (Benhabib 2002) making it, to paraphrase Benhabib, increasingly transparent and fragile. The dilemma involves a highly valued universal welfare model and its underpinning moral economy, which generally does not include irregular migrants in its norms, because there is no relation of reciprocity leading to enti-tlement to Swedish general welfare. This chapter argues that the new law targeting irregular migrants is not to be understood as an inclusion in the moral economy. Rather, it is to be seen as maintenance of exclusion, yet, in a new mode. However, arguments and actions championed by advocacy groups and some stakeholders bear witness to processes that can be interpreted as an ongoing renegotiation of the current moral economy. The renegotiation concerns the relationship between two central policy areas, health care policy and migration policy.

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Ashgate, 2014. p. 139-153
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Law and Migration
Keywords [en]
Irregular migrants, Right to health care, Sweden, Univsersal welfare model, Moral economy
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Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-8630Local ID: 18245ISBN: 9781472436542 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-8630DiVA, id: diva2:1405661
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2022-06-27Bibliographically approved

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