Medicine at the border: resort to afghans health professionals in a humanitarian emergency context

Calais is a “border area” (Cuttitta, 2015). In 2014, the increase in the number of exiles forced the hospital to develop its medical team attached to the permanent health care access service (PASS), which provides free hospital medicine for vulnerable patients without social security coverage. The rapport of professionals towards precariousness has been the subject of several sociological studies that have shown that caregivers in hospitals can express disgust towards patients at the margins. In its ancestral form, the hospital welcomes “these people too” (Castel, 1995) but the creation of university hospital centers (CHU) in 1958 has spread somewhat this social dimension in favor of technical prowess and specialties. We will first see how caregivers reclassified exiles as a resource for the hospital to extend medicine to the precarious. This category of professionals comes together and resembles each other because they share the test of medical disconnection that they have known on...