Paper short abstract:

With a special focus on the situation of the so called EU2 migrants from Rumania and Bulgaria, this paper contribution looks at the interplay of humanitarian health care and state control mechanisms in the city of Frankfurt am Main.

Paper long abstract:

[draft] There is a comparably broad and networked humanitarian health care landscape in Frankfurt am Main available for precarized persons without health insurance or without access to the health care system. With a special focus on the situation of the so called EU2 migrants from Rumania and Bulgaria, this paper contribution looks at the interplay of humanitarian health care and state control mechanisms at an urban scale. Based on 16 interviews with medical personnel, social workers and administrative officers in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, I aim to analyze the de-/bordering effects of diverging beliefs which become apparent in their accounts and approaches. These beliefs, existing in and even within different NGOs and humanitarian medical offices, like the alignment to administrative and workfare logics, the objective of long-term formalization of the right for healthcare, and the avoidance of grey zones on the one hand, and the preferences for unbureaucratical direct care and the deliberate creation of grey zones on the other hand, profoundly shape the situation and trajectory of the patient|migrant.