Migration, Health and Inequality

by Thomas, Felicity; Gideon, Jasmine

• ISBN13: 9781780321240
• ISBN10: 1780321244
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-02-19
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Summary

This book highlights recent developments in global migration, human rights, and health. Looking at diverse health issues and a variety of forms of migration it exposes the factors contributing to the vulnerability of different mobile groups. Migration, Health and Inequality argues that we need to look beyond host country responses and "biomedical" frameworks and include both the role of transnational health networks and indigenous ideas about health when trying to understand migrants' low levels of health relative to their host population. Offering a broad range of linkages between migrant agency, trans-nationalism and diaspora mechanisms, this unique collection also looks at the impact of migrant health on the health and rights of those communities that are left behind.

Author Biography

Dr. Felicity Thomas currently works as a Lecturer at the University of Exeter, and as a Research Associate at the University of Sussex.

Dr. Jasmine Gideon is a Lecturer in Development Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Felicity Thomas and Jasmine Gideon * 1: Context and perspectives: who migrates and what are the risks? - Mary Haour-Knipe * 2: Impact on and use of health services by new migrants in Europe - Sally Hargreaves and Jon S. Friedland * 3: Do migrants have an enforceable right to healthcare in international human rights law? - Sue Willman * 4: International Health Worker Migration: Global Inequality and the Right to Health - Rebecca Shah * 5: Socioeconomic vulnerability and its association with access to health care among international immigrants in Chile - Bàltica Cabieses and Helena Tunstall * 6: In search of security: The mental health and rights of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK - Elaine Chase * 7: Healthcare for trafficked migrants: UK policy 2000-2010 and consequences for access to care - Siân Oram * 8: Vulnerable migrant women and charging for maternity care in the UK - Advocating for change - Rosalind Bragg * 9: Multiple medicaments: looking beyond structural inequalities in migrant health care - Felicity Thomas * 10: Harnessing 'diasporic' medical mobilities - Meghann Ormond * 11: Access versus entitlements: the health seeking behaviour of Latin American migrants in London - Jasmine Gideon * 12: Post-migration wellbeing, community self-help and empowerment: the case of Turkish-speaking women in London - Eleni Hatzidimitriadou & S. Gülfem Çakir