a Department of History , University of Arizona , Tucson , Arizona , USA.
Med Anthropol. 2018 Aug-Sep;37(6):514-532. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2018.1457660. Epub 2018 Apr 20.
Chronic and acute illnesses sit uncomfortably with asylum claiming and refugee mobilities. The story of a Sierra Leonean, an athlete who feared Ebola and sought refuge in the UK, provides an opening to examine protection discourses that invoke fear, trauma, and crisis metaphors, to understand how asylum claims are performed, and how related petitions are adjudicated during public health emergencies of international concern. Ebola is revealed as a novel claim strategy, and thus a useful subject matter to investigate the shifting modalities of migrant agency, the unstable fabric of medical humanitarianism, and knowledge production in moments of exceptionality.
慢性和急性疾病与庇护申请和难民流动并不协调。一位塞拉利昂运动员因害怕埃博拉而在英国寻求庇护，他的故事为我们提供了一个切入点，可借此审视援引恐惧、创伤和危机隐喻的保护话语，了解庇护申请是如何提出的，以及在国际关注的公共卫生紧急情况下相关请愿是如何裁决的。埃博拉病毒被揭示为一种新的索赔策略，因此是一个很好的研究对象，可以调查移民机构的转变模式、医疗人道主义的不稳定结构以及在特殊时期的知识生产。
