Migration and health in a social, demographic and political context

Mandatory literature, texts/readings

Migration, health and structural violence

Carruth L et al (2021). Structural vulnerability: Migration and health in social context. BMJ Global Health, 6(Suppl 1), e005109. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005109

Fassin, D. (2023). Precarious Exiles (R. Gomme, Trans.). In The worlds of public health: Anthropological excursions: Lectures at the Collège de France (2020 – 2021). Polity.

Holmes SM et al (2021). Deservingness: Migration and health in social context. BMJ Global Health, 6 (Suppl 1), e005107. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005107

Borders/Migration from a critical lens

Khosravi S (2010) Illegal traveller: an auto-ethnography of borders. Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 978-0-230-23079-8 (Introduction)

Rekhis, M. (2024) What if Europe’s aspiration for a leading role in global health starts at its borders? In T. Masvawure & E. Folley (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health (1st Edition, pp 406 – 418). Taylor & Francis

Migration and intersectionality

Stasiulis D et al (2020) Migration, intersectionality and social justice. Studies in social justice. DOI: 10.26522/ssj.v2020i14.2445
Gkiouleka, A., & Huijts, T. (2020). Intersectional migration-related health inequalities in Europe: Exploring the role of migrant generation, occupational status & gender. Social Science & Medicine, 267, 113218.

Healthcare in border-zones

Gerbier-Aublanc M (2020) Tinkering Care at the Border: When Calais’s Public Hospital Is Challenged by Migratory Policies in Borders across healthcare: moral economies of healthcare and migration in Europe, Sahraoui N (ed). Berghahn Books. New York. (open access).

Migration and Health ethics

Onarheim Kh et al (2021) Adopting an ethical approach to migration health policy, practice and research: BMJ Global Health; 6:e006425.

Public health interventions

Infante, C., Vieitez-Martinez, I., Rodríguez-Chávez, C., Nápoles, G., Larrea-Schiavon, S., & Bojoquez, I. (2022). Access to health care for migrants along the Mexico-United States border: applying a framework to assess barriers to care in Mexico. Frontiers in public health, 10, 921417.

Wight, D., et al. (2016). Six steps in quality intervention development (6SQuID). Journal of epidemiology and community health, 70(5), 520–525. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2015- 205952

Multimodal research

DELIA’S RETURN: The migration and deportation of an unaccompanied child. (2021). Adobe Spark. Retrieved June 2, 2022, from: https://express.adobe.com/page/XaDVjNgzw5V9d/

Rekommenderad litteratur

Forced migration

Gowayed, H. (2022). Becoming a refugee. In Refugee: How the State Shapes Human Potential. Princeton University Press.

Heidbrink, L. (2021). Delia’s Return: The Detention and Deportation of an Unaccompanied Child. American Anthropologist, 123(3), 685–702. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13621

Migration and mental health

Shultz J et al (2019). Public Health and Mental Health Implications of Environmentally Induced Forced Migration. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 13(2), 116-122. doi:10.1017/dmp.2018.27

Migration and health literacy

Wångdahl J et al (2015). Health literacy and refugees’ experiences of the health examination for asylum seekers – a Swedish cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health, 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2513-8

Governance and Human Rights frameworks

Meier, Benjamin Mason, and William Onzivu (2014). The evolution of human rights in World Health Organization policy and the future of human rights through global health governance. Public health128.2 179-187.

Van de Pas, Remco, et al. (2017) Global health governance in the sustainable development goals: Is it grounded in the right to health? Global Challenges 1.1 :47-60.

Migration and Health: an ekonomic perspective

Hansen, P. (2021). The fiscal impact of migration. In A Modern Migration Theory: An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy. Agenda Publishing

Critical perspectives on migration

Villegas P et al (2020) Contesting Settler Colonial Accounts: Temporality, Migration and Placemaking in Scarborough, Ontario. Studies in Social Justice. https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v14i2.2211

Berlin A et al (2019), The Right and Left Hands of the State – Two Patients at Risk of Deportation. New England Journal of Medicine, 381(3), 197 – 201. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1811607