Sick and Vulnerable Migrants in French Public Hospitals. The Administrative and Budgetary Dimension of Un/Deservingness

This article explores how staff in French public hospitals are indirectly involved the governing of migration through healthcare. It unpacks construction differentiated values life assigned to specific categories vulnerable (authorised and unauthorised) migrants according their perceived un/deservingness context budgetary restrictions. emphasises tensions between medical administrative decision-making process regarding access The analysis rests upon empirical data (participant observations semi-directed interviews) gathered ‘healthcare units’ located hospitals. Perceptions lead both healthcare rationing denial built entangled criteria related status concerns. These mechanisms reveal dimensions that underlie perceptions health-related un/deservingness, which is linked costs healthcare: higher costs, less likely patients be designated deserving