Migration, Health and Inequality

By: Felicity Thomas, Jasmine Gideon

ISBN-13: 9781780321240
ISBN-10: 1780321244
Publisher: Zed Books
Published date: 2013-02-19
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.