Abstract
Amina, a Nigerian woman in her early thirties, met Naanah Kofi, a Ghanaian man in his late thirties, at the evangelical church they both attended in South Tel Aviv, just a block away from the city's Central Bus Station. Both came to Israel on an undocumented or illegal basis with the goal of working and earning money, some to save and some to remit home to kin. Eventually the couple moved in together, and Amina became pregnant. Interested in obtaining prenatal care but unable to pay a private Israeli doctor, Amina followed a friend's advice and began making monthly trips to East Jerusalem, over an hour's journey each way and across the invisible but tangible border between Israel and Palestine, to consult a Palestinian physician known within the West African community in Tel Aviv to provide prenatal care at low rates. During Amina's second trimester, the doctor recommended an advanced sonogram. He lacked the technology to provide it, so he referred her to the sole medical facility in Tel Aviv fully accessible to migrant workers: the low-tech, volunteer-run Open Clinic run by the NGO Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR). The clinic itself—equipped with little more than a few donated examination tables, a used EKG machine, and an ill-stocked medicine cabinet containing first aid supplies and an assortment of donated
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