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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828029303321

Autore

Castañeda Heide

Titolo

Migration and health : critical perspectives / / Heide Castañeda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-00-330753-1

1-000-62356-4

1-000-62359-9

1-003-30753-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 pages)

Collana

Critical Approaches to Health

Disciplina

362.1086/912

Soggetti

Immigrants - Medical care

Immigrants - Health and hygiene

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Critical perspectives on migration and health -- Health in transit -- Healthcare access and utilization -- The clinical encounter -- Communicable disease -- Labor and occupational health -- Gender, sexuality, and migrant health -- Health impacts of enforcement, detention, and deportation -- Forced displacement : refugee and asylum-seeker health.

Sommario/riassunto

"Migration and Health offers a radical rethinking of the field by unsettling conventional ideas of mobility and borders to highlight the ways in which they produce health inequalities. It illustrates how a critical perspective can deepen our understanding of the relationship between migration and health"--