Nah, Alice Maria Han Yuong orcid.org/0000-0002-0253-0334 and Ormond, Meghann (2019) Risk entrepreneurship and the construction of healthcare deservingness for ‘desirable’, ‘acceptable’ and ‘disposable’ migrants in Malaysia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. pp. 1-22. ISSN 1369-183X
Abstract
In recent years, scholars have focused on the concept of healthcare deservingness, observing that healthcare professionals, state authorities and the broader public make moral judgements about which migrants are deserving of health care and which are not. This literature tends to focus on migrants with irregular status. This article examines how state calculations of healthcare deservingness have also been applied to authorised migrants. Focusing on Malaysia, we examine the ways in which state authorities construct migrants as ‘desirable’, ‘acceptable’ and ‘disposable’, differentiated through calculations of their biological and economic risks and potential contribution to ‘the nation’. To do this, we analyse recent government and commercial policies, plans and practices to reflect on how such biopolitical orderings create the conditions for risk entrepreneurship – where public and private actors capitalise on profit-making opportunities that emerge from the construction of risky subjects and risky scenarios – while reinforcing hierarchies of healthcare deservingness that exacerbate health inequalities by privileging migrants with greater economic capital and legitimising the exclusion of poor migrants.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019, The Author(s). |
Keywords: | Health care privatisation,Malaysia,deservingness,migrants,risk entrepreneurship |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Research Groups (York) > Centre for Applied Human Rights (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2019 15:20 |
Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2025 00:23 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1597477 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1597477 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:143551 |
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