Migration and health
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2021
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003185215-25
Abstract
This chapter provides a critical approach to migrant health, focusing on social determinants and particularly how inequality, poverty, institutional constraints, and violence contribute to health disparities. This requires us to, first, understand the structural reasons behind people’s displacement; second, it means recognising the processes of institutional, economic, and political marginalisation that continue after they arrive in a new country. Inequities in the wellbeing of migrants are heavily determined by factors such as exclusionary policies, discrimination and racism, employment in marginal and dangerous jobs, the high cost of healthcare, inadequate housing, and poor access to transportation and other resources. These conditions often emerge from assumptions regarding the root causes of their migration, which shape ideas about how deserving of incorporation a particular immigrant group should be.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Migration and health, in K. Chamberlain & A. Lyons (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness, Routledge, p. 276-288
Scholar Commons Citation
Castaneda, Heide, "Migration and health" (2021). Anthropology Faculty Publications. 102.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ant_facpub/102
