Migration, Health and Inequality

ISBN-13: 9781780321240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str.

Felicity Thomas

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 healthcare among immigrants in Chile - Bàltica Cabieses and Helena Tunstall 6. Unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK: mental health and rights - Elaine Chase 7. Healthcare for trafficked migrants: UK policy 2000-10 and consequences for access - Siân Oram 8. Vulnerable migrant women and charging for maternity care in the UK: advocating change - Rosalind Bragg 9. Multiple medicaments: looking beyond structural inequalities in migrant healthcare - Felicity Thomas 10. Harnessing 'diasporic' medical mobilities - Meghann Ormond 11. Access versus entitlements: the health seeking for Latin American migrants in London - Jasmine Gideon 12. Wellbeing and community self-help: Turkish-speaking women in London - Eleni Hatzidimitriadou and S. Gülfem Çakir