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Migration, Health and Inequality by Felicity Thomas; Doctor Jasmine Gideon is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Migration, Health and Inequality about?

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 un

Who reads Migration, Health and Inequality?

Author

Felicity Thomas; Doctor Jasmine Gideon

Publisher

Zed Books; Zed Books Ltd

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780325026

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Social Science, Medical

Updated

2026-03-24