Migrant Health

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: HEIDE CASTANEDA, Heide Castañeda
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781138490420
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49042-0
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Critical Approaches to Health
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Anthropology, Psychology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Human biology, Medical Sociology