On otherness and rigths: media and normative narratives about migrants´ access to public health by Abal, Yamila Soledad, Melella, Cecilia Eleonora, Matossian, Brenda

“…As a result, it was possible to identify three discursive operations: (a) the displacement of the idea of health as a right to health as an object of diplomatic negotiation based on reciprocity; (b) the association of the collpase of health services with the migrants demand for care, which operates by concealing the structural nature of the health system deficiencies, linked to the regressivity of neoliberal policies with regard to the recognition of basic social rights, such as health; (c) the denial of these others under the mechanism of the scapegoat, representing them as a “social threat” and as the “unworthy” of the gratuity.…”
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