The Timeliness of Care
摘要
This chapter investigates the production, flow and storage of documents associated with healthcarehealthcare. Through ethnographic cases, I examine the articulation and mutual implication of migration and access to healthcare as sites of subjectivation involving temporal frames. The conditional, limited, temporarytemporalitytemporariness and discretionary health care offered to undocumented migrants in France, is analysed as a form of ‘precariousprecarity inclusionprecarious inclusion’ thatinclusionprecarious merges care and controlcare and control. The chapter discusses how, within the temporal architecturestemporal architectures of the healthcare system, embodied experiences of illegalityillegality come to be entangled with the temporalitiestemporality of the sick body and prospects of regularizationregularization.