Healthcare, Migration and Politics in the Middle East: The Covid-19 Pandemic in Local Contexts

Previous studies on the pandemic in the MENA region have mainly focused on foreign policy and state responses. This book, edited by three academics who have been working for many years on the Middle East, and on a variety of social, historical and political issues related to the region, discusses the impact of international migrants and refugees in the Middle East, using specific case studies to answer questions about their role in coping with the pandemic and how it has affected them. What has the role of international migrants been in coping with COVID-19? How has this international health crisis affected international migrants and refugees? How has it affected socio-economic and political structures? These are complex questions, and the answers are diverse.The book aims to assess the relationship between healthcare, international migration and the pandemic, examining some specific case-studies and providing some insight into the socio-economic and political structures of some countries. The chapters deal with the following countries and topics related to the impact of the pandemic: Türkiye, with reference to the case of Uzbek and Georgian migrant women, Türkiye with reference to Turkish citizens' attitudes towards Syrian refugees, Palestinian camps in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and students' and immigrant professors' ethnographic experiences, the Arab Gulf countries and the Pakistan Medical Centre in Dubai, Arabia and the case-study of Oman, and Iran. The book is also an attempt to move beyond the idea of migrants as victims of the pandemic, but it also sheds light on the active role and agency of migrants to underline their substantive contribution to coping with the health crisis.The aim of this volume is to give an impression of the various aspects that need to be considered when one becomes aware of living in an irrevocably multicultural society.The target audience are students of international and Middle Eastern studies, academics and professionals interested in the Middle East and/or involved in development cooperation projects in the region and beyond, with a particular interest in migrants, the health sector and health crisis management.

Table des matières

.- CHAPTER 1 Introduction by Gennaro Errichiello, Elena Maestri, Annemarie Profanter.
.- CHAPTER 2 Taking Care of the Elderly During the Pandemic Days The Case of Uzbek and Georgian Migrant wom-en in Türkiye by Bezen Balamir Coskun.
.- CHAPTER 3 The Impact of the COVID 19 Pandemic on Native Population's Attitudes Towards Syrian Refugees in Türki-ye A Comprehensive Multidimensional Analysis of Integrated Threat Perceptions by Canan Çetin.
.- CHAPTER 4 Crisis within the crisisThe COVID 19 and its impact in Palestinian camps by Marie Kortam.
.- CHAPTER 5 Navigating Uncharted Female Territories Students and Immigrant Professors Ethnographic Experiences in Higher Education during COVID 19 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Annemarie Profanter and Stephanie Ryan Cate,etc.
.- CHAPTER 6 Healthcare and the Covid 19 pandemic in the Arab Gulf countries The Pakistan Medical Centre in Dubai by Gennaro Errichiello.
.- CHAPTER 7 From Crisis to Gains in the Gulf? Decentralized Migration Management, COVID 19 Pandemic Diplomacy, and the Emirati State by Froilan T. Malit, Jr.
.- CHAPTER 8 Healthcare in Arabia, between Past and Present, Migrants and Nationals The Case-Study of Omab and COVID 19 by Elena Maestri and Rafia Al Talei.
.- CHAPTER 9 Iran and COVID 19 The perfect storm by Michele Brunelli.
.- CHAPTER 10 Navigating Crisis and Resilience.Towards new institutional, socio-economic and cultural paradigms.- Conclusion by Elena Maestri, Gennaro Errichiello.

A propos de l'auteur

Co-Editors/Co-Authors: 1. Gennaro Errichiello is a Global Fellow at Habib University in Karachi. He is a sociologist working on international migration and in particular he focuses on South-South migration. His expertise area is the Gulf countries Asia migration corridor. His research interests revolve around migration, integration, migrant organisations, race, gender, middle-class migrants. He has taught at Loughborough University, Webster University in Tashkent and SOAS University of London.  He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in edited books, and presented in many international conferences. 2. Elena Maestri is Professor of History and Institutions of the Muslim World at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) in Milan (Italy). She received her Ph.D. in "Institutions and Organisations" from UCSC, specializing in history and institutions of Arabia. She has carried out extensive research on the Gulf Arab States, gender issues and Islam, development and cooperation in the GCC, the old and the new media in the Arab-Muslim world. During her doctorate studies she was at the University of Exeter (UK), at the University of Bahrain, and at the Abu Dhabi Centre for Documentation and Research. As a tenured researcher, she continued regular fieldwork in the Gulf Arab countries, from Saudi Arabia, to Kuwait, the UAE, and Oman. She has participated in a great number of international conferences, and she is the author and co-author of many articles, book-chapters, and of a number of books in Italian and English. Arab Women and the Media in Changing Landscapes, and Migration and Integration Challenges of Muslim Immigrants in Europe, co-authored and co-edited with Annemarie Profanter, were published by Palgrave Macmillan respectively in 2017 and 2021. 3.  Annemarie Profanter is an Associate Professor of Intercultural Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bolzano, Italy. She received her two doctorates in Education and Psychology and a master's degree in Psychology of Education from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and from the University of London, UK. Since 2004 she resided periodically in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula conducting fieldwork and visiting fellowships for international institutions such as "The City University of Science and Information Technology" in Peshawar, Pakistan and the American University affiliated, "Dhofar University" in Salalah, Sultanate of Oman, as well as "Prince Mohammed University" in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She is currently working on projects addressing Arab women's experiences in the Gulf and has recently published a documentary on polygyny in collaboration with the Ministry of Information in Oman. Her current research also includes Islamic integration and migration issues in Europe.     

Résumé

Previous studies on the pandemic in the MENA region have mainly focused on foreign policy and state responses. This book, edited by three academics who have been working for many years on the Middle East, and on a variety of social, historical and political issues related to the region, discusses the impact of international migrants and refugees in the Middle East, using specific case studies to answer questions about their role in coping with the pandemic and how it has affected them. What has the role of international migrants been in coping with COVID-19? How has this international health crisis affected international migrants and refugees? How has it affected socio-economic and political structures? These are complex questions, and the answers are diverse.The book aims to assess the relationship between healthcare, international migration and the pandemic, examining some specific case-studies and providing some insight into the socio-economic and political structures of some countries. The chapters deal with the following countries and topics related to the impact of the pandemic: Türkiye, with reference to the case of Uzbek and Georgian migrant women, Türkiye with reference to Turkish citizens’ attitudes towards Syrian refugees, Palestinian camps in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and students’ and immigrant professors’ ethnographic experiences, the Arab Gulf countries and the Pakistan Medical Centre in Dubai, Arabia and the case-study of Oman, and Iran. The book is also an attempt to move beyond the idea of migrants as victims of the pandemic,  but it also sheds light on the active role and agency of migrants to underline their substantive contribution to coping with the health crisis.The aim of this volume is to give an impression of the various aspects that need to be considered when one becomes aware of living in an irrevocably multicultural society.The target audience are students of international and Middle Eastern studies, academics and professionals interested in the Middle East and/or involved in development cooperation projects in the region and beyond, with a particular interest in migrants, the health sector and health crisis management.

Détails du produit

• Collaboration: Gennaro Errichiello (Editeur), Elena Maestri (Editeur), Annemarie Profanter (Editeur)
• Edition: Springer, Berlin
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 11.12.2025
• EAN: 9783032037602
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3203760-2
• Pages: 340
• Illustrations: Approx. 340 p. 5 illus.
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques comparées et internationales; Migration, Iran, Oman, Healthcare, Lebanon, Middle East, Covid-19, Turkey, auseinandersetzen, International Security Studies, United Arab Emirates, Palestinians, GCC States, Gulf Arab countries