Migration, health and inequality

✍ Scribed by Felicity Thomas; Jasmine Gideon (editors)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

“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.“

✦ Table of Contents

About the editors
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Tables and figures
Table 2.1 Key barriers to healthcare for new migrants
Table 12.1 Health and mental health problems
Figure 1.1 Traditional and modern migration paradigms
Figure 12.1 Women’s health problems before and after their arrival in the UK
Figure 12.2 Percentage of women accessing health services for their problems
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Current migration patterns and processes
Global policy-making and implementation
Health, migration and vulnerable groups
Transnationalism, diaspora and health
References
1 | Context and perspectives: who migrates and what are the risks?
Introduction
The larger context: international migration today
Figure 1.1 Traditional and modern migration paradigms
Phases of the migration process and health effects
Returning to communities of origin
Policy frameworks affecting migrant health, and the role of international organisations
Needs and challenges
References
2 | Impact on and use of health services by new migrants in Europe
New migration to Europe
What are the implications for health services?
Barriers to healthcare and their influence on service use
Table 2.1 Key barriers to healthcare for new migrants
System and provider level barriers
Conclusions
References
3 | Do migrants have an enforceable right to healthcare in international human rights law?
Introduction
Is there a right to health?
Does human rights protection extend to migrants?
Equality arguments as a basis for migrants’ entitlement to healthcare
The ‘justification’ defence to discrimination against migrants
Protection for special groups as a basis for migrants’ entitlement to healthcare
Regional human rights protection as a basis for migrants’ entitlement
Migrant-specific human rights protection
Domestic law as a basis for migrants’ entitlement
Conclusion
Notes
References
4 | International health worker migration: global inequality and the right to health
Introduction
Human rights analysis
‘Source’ country governments and the right to health
Caveats in the right to health
Conclusion
Notes
References
5 | Socioeconomic vulnerability and access to healthcare among immigrants in Chile
Introduction
The Republic of Chile and the Chilean healthcare system
Immigration patterns in Chile
Legal rights to healthcare and policies to support access among immigrants in Chile
Demographic characteristics of international immigrants in Chile
Socioeconomic conditions of international immigrants in Chile
Healthcare provision among international immigrants and its association with socioeconomic status
Are international immigrants in Chile a vulnerable group and why?
References
6 | Unaccompanied young asylum seekers in the UK: mental health and rights
Introduction
Ontological security
Unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK
Rights as instruments or moral claims
Methodology
Threats to ontological security
The limitations of a clinical response
Discussion
Conclusion
Notes
References
7 | Healthcare for trafficked migrants: UK policy 2000–10 and consequences for access
Introduction
Trafficked migrants’ access to NHS care: policy environment 2000–10
Impact of the NHS charging regulations on trafficked migrants’ access to healthcare, 2000–08
Implications of NHS access policies 2008–10
Conclusion
Notes
References
8 | Vulnerable migrant women and charging formaternity care in the UK: advocating change
Introduction
Charging for maternity care
Access to maternity care
Poor health outcomes
Political environment
Advocating for change
References
9 | Multiple medicaments: looking beyond structural inequalities in migrant healthcare
Introduction
HIV in the UK
Thinking beyond the biomedical
Interpreting and responding to ill-health
Treatment seeking following an HIV positive diagnosis
Conclusion
Notes
References
10 | Harnessing ‘diasporic’ medical mobilities
Mobilising ‘diaspora’ for development in the ‘homeland’
Capitalising on structural inequalities
Claiming diaspora as the ‘natural’ market for cultural reasons
Using ‘their’ diaspora as a bridge to access new markets around the globe
Conclusion
Note
References
11 | Access versus entitlements: health seeking for Latin American migrants in London
Introduction
Latin American migrants in the UK
Migrants’ access to NHS services in the UK
Migration, gendered vulnerability and ill-health
Migrants’ access to healthcare services
The role of transnational networks and health seeking behaviour
The case study
Return to Latin America
Use of Spanish-speaking doctors in the UK
Conclusion
Notes
References
12 | Wellbeing and community self-help:Turkish-speaking women in London
Introduction
Post-migration wellbeing
Migration and women
Issues for migrant women
Community self-help and user empowerment in health services
Research with Turkish-speaking migrant women
Gendered empowerment experiences of Turkish-speaking women: findings from a quantitative large scale survey
Figure 12.1 Women’s health problems before and after their arrival in the UK
Table 12.1 Health and mental health problems
Figure 12.2 Percentage of women accessing health services for their problems
Findings from a small scale qualitative study with Turkish-speaking women’s self-help groups
Discussion
Note
References
Contributors
Index
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