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This thesis investigated the process of resilience among undocumented migrant women in Belgium, using multilevel analysis to identify key challenges and the main contributing factors to resilience at the individual and social level, as well as their aspirations and future goals. By shifting the focus from mere vulnerability to the dynamic interaction of challenges and developing resilience, this research aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the lived experiences of undocumented migrant women, placing them as active recipients of adversity. A qualitative methodological approach was employed, with data collected through participant observation and nine semi-structured interviews with undocumented migrant women living in the province of Liege. The findings revealed that undocumented migrant women interact and move within various levels of the socio-ecological environment, encountering elements that enhance resilience as well as barriers and challenges that can compromise their resilience. Structural and systemic barriers to regularization emerged as one of the main obstacles that further produced various forms of vulnerability, including economic vulnerabilities, precarious living conditions, limited access to health care, and forms of discrimination and prejudice. As for the contributing factors to resilience, at the individual level, faith and spirituality constituted one of the main attributes undocumented migrant women possess to face difficulties, along with various expressions of personal agency. At the social level, civil society organizations constitute the main contributing factor to resilience besides family and friends, and fellow undocumented migrant women. Finally, regularization stood out as a key aspiration for most undocumented women.

resilience, undocumented migrants, women, vulnerability, adversity --- Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie > Sociologie & sciences sociales

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2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) 2023 Winner, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water, among the Caribbean islands. The first study to examine literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean, Crossing Waters relates a journey that remains silenced and largely unknown. Analyzing works by novelists, short-story writers, poets, and visual artists replete with references to drowning and echoes of the Middle Passage, Marisel Moreno shines a spotlight on the plight that these migrants face. In some cases, Puerto Rico takes on a new role as a stepping-stone to the continental United States and the society migrants will join there. Meanwhile the land border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the only terrestrial border in the Hispanophone Caribbean, emerges as a complex space within this cartography of borders. And while the Border Patrol occupies US headlines, the Coast Guard occupies the nightmares of refugees. An untold story filled with beauty, possibility, and sorrow, Crossing Waters encourages us to rethink the geography and experience of undocumented migration and the role that the Caribbean archipelago plays as a border zone.

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This open access book provides an analysis of the functioning, consequences and inherent limitations of internalised immigration control. By adopting the perspective of irregular residents as well as local service providers, the book sheds new light on the intricate mechanisms that either help or hinder the diffusion of immigration control into concrete institutional settings, like schools or hospitals. A simple and innovative analytical framework enables the systematic comparison of three different spheres of service provision across two distinct local as well as also national contexts. This is necessary to understand the complex interplay between formal law and policy, the intrinsic rules and logics operating within institutions, and the ethical or practical obligations and constraints attached to particular roles and professions. Based on empirical findings and rigorous analysis, the book argues that internalised control is part of the problem that irregular migration poses for society, rather than constituting a potential solution to it.

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What do undocumented migrants experience when they try to access healthcare? How do they navigate the (often contradictory) challenges presented by bureaucratic systems, financial pressures, attitudes to migrants, and their own healthcare needs? This urgent study uses a grounded theory approach to explore the ways in which undocumented migrants are included in or excluded from healthcare in a Swiss region. Marianne Jossen explores the ways migrants try to obtain healthcare on their own, with the help of NGOs or via insurance, and how they cope if they fail, whether by using risky strategies to access healthcare or leaving serious health issues untreated. Jossen shows that even for those who succeed, inclusion remains partial and fraught with risks. Based on interviews with migrants, health practitioners and NGO staff and using a rigorous academic approach, Undocumented Migrants and Healthcare is an important contribution to a vital contemporary issue. It is necessary reading for researchers in Public Health and Migration Studies, as well as government and non-governmental organisations in Switzerland and beyond. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with healthcare and migration in the twenty-first century.

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