Migrants and healthcare within the European Union

• Authors: Raluca Nagy
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The investigation of migration can help us understand how the types of migration interact with each other as well as with the various local/national ‘immobilities’. Migrants pose special challenges to healthcare systems, in their origin as well as destination countries. Available data on this topic, following EU interests and policies, focuses on health problems of vulnerable migrant groups, often directed exclusively to issues that can affect the local population. This paper aims to set some explanatory contexts when it comes to the relationship between migration and healthcare within the European context.

Keywords

EN

healthcare; migration; infectious diseases; access; Europe

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 61-72

Dates

published

2011-02-01

online

2015-05-04

Contributors

author

Raluca Nagy

• Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains Université Libre de Bruxelles

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2011-0003