Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives

Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives offers a radical rethinking of the field by highlighting the ways in which mobility and borders produce health inequalities. It provides insight through a critical lens and proposes areas for intervention, emphasizing the need for future research to address these health inequities. The text employs a critical approach to examine the relationship between migration and health, recognizing the complex, tangled, and multi-directional nature of migration and the vulnerability of migrants. It covers a wide range of topics, including health in transit, healthcare access, clinical encounters, communicable disease, labor and occupational health, gender and sexuality, immigration enforcement, detention, deportation, and the effects of forced displacement on refugee and asylum-seeker health. The text is useful for students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in gaining a more holistic and critical understanding of the relationship between migration and health.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 166 pages
Publication date: 27 July 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives presents a groundbreaking reimagining of the field by challenging traditional notions of mobility and borders to shed light on the ways in which they perpetuate health disparities. Spanning a wide array of topics, the text offers insightful perspectives through a critical lens, proposing areas for intervention while emphasizing the urgent need for future research to address the health inequalities impacting migrants. Through its illustrative approach, the text deepens our understanding of the intricate relationship between migration and health, which remains a defining global issue of our time.

The text adopts a critical stance to examine the underlying structural factors contributing to inequality and the broader historical and political processes that drive exclusionary bordering practices. It recognizes that these practices are increasingly taking place beyond physical points of entry, emphasizing the need to consider the complex, interconnected, and multifaceted nature of migration. The text highlights how migrant vulnerability can profoundly impact the lives of individuals and communities in wider contexts. Furthermore, it acknowledges diverse and intersectional viewpoints, as well as the shifting spatial and temporal influences that shape the experiences of migrants.

Chapters within the text cover a comprehensive range of health-related issues, including health during transit, access to healthcare, clinical encounters, communicable diseases, labor and occupational health, gender and sexuality, immigration enforcement, detention, deportation, and the consequences of forced displacement on the health of refugees and asylum seekers.

This text serves as a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in exploring the intersection of migration and health disparities in a more holistic and critical manner. It is also designed to assist practitioners and policymakers in gaining a deeper understanding of the structural conditions of inequality and their implications for addressing health disparities. By examining the complexities of migration and health through a critical lens, this text contributes to a more comprehensive and equitable understanding of these pressing issues.

Weight: 330g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138490437