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 across the globe. 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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'Recent decades have seen a major increase in migration and global "flows", of peoples, populations and ideas. Against this background, this landmark volume sets out to examine fundamental questions of health and inequality. It provides essential reading for all interested in migration and health.' - Professor Peter Aggleton, The University of New South Wales, Australia 'A collection of thought provoking and engagingly written selections, Migration, Health and Inequality provides a nuanced, multi-layered examination of migrants' right to health in the context of shifting power relations under contemporary globalization. An important read for researchers, policymakers and service providers.' - Dr Denise L. Spitzer, Canada Research Chair in Gender, Migration and Health, University of Ottawa 'This edited collection provides timely and thought-provoking insights into understanding migrants' physical and mental health status and their health-seeking behaviours. Going beyond a biomedical approach to health to consider alternative understandings of wellbeing and illness, as well as dimensions of inequality such as gender, socio-economic status and migrant status, this wide-ranging book represents an excellent source for understanding migrant health inequalities and the associated human rights challenges.' - Katie Willis, Professor of Human Geography & Director of the Politics, Development & Sustainability (PDS) Group, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Felicity Thomas is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Exeter and a Research Associate at the University of Sussex. She has recently completed a Leverhulme Trust Early Careers Fellowship. Her research interests include the health and wellbeing of migrants, the socio-economic and emotional impacts of HIV and AIDS, HIV treatment seeking and management, and transnational health and treatment networks. Her most recent research examines the use of 'traditional' African medicines amongst migrants from southern Africa who are living with HIV in the UK. Jasmine Gideon is a Lecturer in Development Studies at Birkbeck College. Her research interests include the health seeking strategies of low-income groups in a Latin American and UK context, gender and socio-economic rights and gender and social policy with specific reference to health. Her current research explores the transnational health seeking strategies of Latin American migrants in the UK and the extent to which these processes are gendered.
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