Migration, health and inequality /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description:272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8958942
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Other authors / contributors:Thomas, Felicity.
Gideon, Jasmine.
ISBN:9781780321257 (hardback)
1780321252 (hardback)
9781780321240 (pbk.)
1780321244 (pbk.)
Notes:"A number of the chapters in this book stem from the conference 'Migration and the Right to Health', which was held in London in May 2010."--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Tables and figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Context and perspectives: who migrates and what are the risks?
  • 2. Impact on and use of health services by new migrants in Europe
  • 3. Do migrants have an enforceable right to healthcare in international human rights law?
  • 4. International health worker migration: global inequality and the right to health
  • 5. Socioeconomic vulnerability and access to healthcare among immigrants in Chile
  • 6. Unaccompanied young asylum seekers in the UK: mental health and rights
  • 7. Healthcare for trafficked migrants: UK policy 2000-10 and consequences for access
  • 8. Vulnerable migrant women and charging for maternity care in the UK: advocating change
  • 9. Multiple medicaments: looking beyond structural inequalities in migrant healthcare
  • 10. Harnessing 'diasporic' medical mobilities
  • 11. Access versus entitlements: health seeking for Latin American migrants in London
  • 12. Wellbeing and community self-help: Turkish-speaking women in London
  • Contributors
  • Index