This article highlights categories and dichotomies used in the study of the health of migrants, including migrant motivation, migrant type, pre- and post-migration time periods, and health as biomedically or socially determined. The authors suggest that the full spectrum of migrants and migration be considered more thoroughly in order to improve our understanding of migrant health. This paper challenges simple conceptions of migration, mobility, and migrant experience. To fill gaps in knowledge left by these conceptions, researchers must recognize the decisions migrants make as a process which plays out both over time (in migrant life-courses) and also across personal, national, and international contexts which connect the individual to larger structures and phenomena. The authors argue that, in this reality, research questions related to migrant health are best addressed using life-course perspectives which recognize health as a continuum of socially-constructed statuses.
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{"title":"Oportunidades y tensiones de la protección social más allá del marco nacional: la asistencia sanitaria transfronteriza en el contexto español","authors":"Sònia Parella Rubio, Alisa Petroff, Thales Speroni","doi":"10.3280/mm2019-003005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/mm2019-003005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93477,"journal":{"name":"Mondi migranti : rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazioni internazionali","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82261172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education and Religion in France and Israel","authors":"P. Mattei, Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin","doi":"10.3280/mm2019-003009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/mm2019-003009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93477,"journal":{"name":"Mondi migranti : rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazioni internazionali","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89294721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Servizi sociali e utenti originari di Transnational Nation-States: il caso dell'Ecuador a Genova","authors":"A. Massa","doi":"10.3280/mm2019-003004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/mm2019-003004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93477,"journal":{"name":"Mondi migranti : rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazioni internazionali","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74240380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Protection for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Glasgow","authors":"Niroshan Ramachandran","doi":"10.3280/mm2019-003006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/mm2019-003006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93477,"journal":{"name":"Mondi migranti : rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazioni internazionali","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75844563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying the Resource Environment to Ecuadorian Migrant Cross-Border Practices of Social Protection in Vienna and Quito: Possibilities and Limitations","authors":"Daniela Paredes Grijalva","doi":"10.3280/mm2019-003003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/mm2019-003003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93477,"journal":{"name":"Mondi migranti : rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazioni internazionali","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76627008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Il dibattito sulla Protezione Sociale Globale e Transnazionale. Introduzione","authors":"Simone Castellani, F. Lagomarsino","doi":"10.3280/mm2019-003002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/mm2019-003002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93477,"journal":{"name":"Mondi migranti : rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazioni internazionali","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83508170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Great Expectations? Young Southern Europeans Emigrating in Times of Crisis","authors":"I. Dimitriadis, G. Fullin, M. Fischer-Souan","doi":"10.3280/mm2019-003007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/mm2019-003007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93477,"journal":{"name":"Mondi migranti : rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazioni internazionali","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86560410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accesso a un mercato del lavoro segmentato: laureate migranti in Veneto","authors":"Anne-Iris Romens","doi":"10.3280/mm2019-003008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/mm2019-003008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93477,"journal":{"name":"Mondi migranti : rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazioni internazionali","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79086042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Multidimensional Analysis of Migration and Care Work","authors":"F. Williams","doi":"10.3280/mm2019-003001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3280/mm2019-003001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93477,"journal":{"name":"Mondi migranti : rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazioni internazionali","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89803513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}