Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138490437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 200 str.

CASTANEDA

Opis

Migration and Health offers a radical rethinking of the field by unsettling conventional ideas of mobility and borders to highlight the ways in which they produce health inequalities. It illustrates how a critical perspective can deepen our understanding of the relationship between migration and health.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. 2. Critical Perspectives on Migration and Health. 3. Health in Transit. 4. Healthcare Access and Utilization. 5. The Clinical Encounter. 6. Communicable Disease. 7. Labor and Occupational Health. 8. Gender, Sexuality, and Migrant Health. 9. Health Impacts of Enforcement, Detention, and Deportation. 10. Forced Displacement: Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Health. 11. Conclusion. 12. References.

O autorze

Dr. Heide Castañeda is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her research areas include critical border studies, political and legal anthropology, medical anthropology, migration, migrant health, and citizenship, focusing on the U.S./Mexico border, Mexico, Germany, and Morocco.