Interrogating medical tourism: Ireland, abortion, and mobility rights

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dc.contributor.authorGilmartin, Mary
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Allen
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-22T16:12:12Z
dc.date.available2013-04-22T16:12:12Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.updated2013-01-17T11:27:53Z
dc.description.abstractMedical tourism in Ireland, like in many Western states, is built around assumptions about individual agency, choice, possibility, and mobility. One specific form of medical tourism—the flow of women from Ireland traveling in order to secure an abortion—disrupts and contradicts these assumptions. One legacy of the bitter, contentious political and legal battles surrounding abortion in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s has been securing the right of mobility for all pregnant Irish citizens to cross international borders to secure an abortion. However, these mobility rights are contingent upon nationality, social class, and race, and they have enabled successive Irish governments to avoid any responsibility for providing safe, legal, and affordable abortion services in Ireland. Nearly twenty years after the X case discussed here, the pregnant female body moving over international borders—entering and leaving the state—is still interpreted as problematic and threatening to the Irish state.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMARY GILMARTIN & ALLEN WHITE 2011. Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion, and Mobility Rights. Signs, 36 (2), 275-280. doi: 10.1086/655907en
dc.identifier.doi10.1086/655907
dc.identifier.endpage280en
dc.identifier.issn00979740
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Societyen
dc.identifier.startpage275en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1078
dc.identifier.volume36en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherThe University of Chicago Pressen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/655907
dc.rights© 2010 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectMedical tourismen
dc.subjectMobility rightsen
dc.subjectAbortion issues Irelanden
dc.titleInterrogating medical tourism: Ireland, abortion, and mobility rightsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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