Migration, Health and Inequality
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Migration, Health and Inequality
About this book
Should migrants have the same rights as citizens to health care services? What do we mean by rights and by health? And how do we uphold such rights when diasporic networks provide a diversity of opportunities and constraints for people seeking to maintain or restore their health? Answering these pressing questions, this book highlights recent developments in the areas of migration, human rights and health from a range of countries. Looking at diverse health issues, from HIV to reproductive and maternal health, and a variety of forms of migration, including asylum seeking, labour migration and trafficking, this timely volume exposes the factors that contribute to the vulnerability of different mobile groups as they seek to uphold their wellbeing. 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, popular or lay ideas about health when trying to understand why many migrants suffer from low levels of health relative to their host population. Offering a broad range of linkages between migrant agency, transnationalism 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables and figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Context and perspectives: who migrates and what are the risks?
- 2 Impact on and use of health services by new migrants in Europe
- 3 Do migrants have an enforceable right to healthcare in international human rights law?
- 4 International health worker migration: global inequality and the right to health
- 5 Socioeconomic vulnerability and access to healthcare among immigrants in Chile
- 6 Unaccompanied young asylum seekers in the UK: mental health and rights
- 7 Healthcare for trafficked migrants: UK policy 2000–10 and consequences for access
- 8 Vulnerable migrant women and charging for maternity care in the UK: advocating change
- 9 Multiple medicaments: looking beyond structural inequalities in migrant healthcare
- 10 Harnessing ‘diasporic’ medical mobilities
- 11 Access versus entitlements: health seeking for Latin American migrants in London
- 12 Wellbeing and community self-help: Turkish-speaking women in London
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Notes
- References
- Index