Structural vulnerability: migration and health in social context
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- Category: Health services
- Publication Date: 30 January 2021
Based on the authors' work in Latin America and Africa. This article describes and applies the concept of "vulnerability structural vulnerability" to the challenges of clinical and health care for immigrants. and the challenges of providing health care to immigrants. This concept helps to This concept helps to consider how specific hierarchies and policies produce and shape the and specific policies and policies produce and shape ill health. in two case studies: one on the U.S.-Mexico border and the other in Djibouti. the other in Djibouti. Migrants and service providers of migrants and service providers in migrant systems Migrants and service providers in unequal and sometimes violent global migration systems. shared structural vulnerabilities that differentially affect health and other outcomes. and other outcomes.
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Undocumented African Migration in Mexico: Implications for Public Health
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- Category: Health services
- Publication Date: December 30, 2020
Existe poca información confiable sobre la cantidad de población africana indocumentada en México. El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo cuantificar a los migrantes africanos indocumentados detenidos por las autoridades migratorias mexicanas y presentar consideraciones para la salud pública de la región. Entre 2007 a 2018, la Segob (s.f.) reporta un total de 1´339 664 extranjeros indocumentados detenidos. La proporción de africanos detenidos por las autoridades de inmigración mexicanas entre todos los extranjeros indocumentados aumentó de 0.38 por ciento (n = 460) en 2007 a 2.32 por ciento (n = 2 178) en 2017, un aumento de seis veces en proporción y de casi cinco veces en el número absoluto. Se observó un pico de 1.83 por ciento (n = 1 282) en 2010. El mayor número de africanos detenidos se registró en 2016 (n = 3 910), con una proporción de 2.10 por ciento. En 2018, la proporción fue de 2.13 por ciento (n = 2 958). La población masculina fue de 82.86 por ciento en 2016, proporción que disminuyó a 74.29 por ciento en 2017 y a 69.2 por ciento en 2018. No hay datos de género disponibles antes de 2016.
Migrants in Latin America: Disparities in Health Status and in Access to Healthcare
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- Publication Date: Jun 2020
The large magnitude and sudden nature of recent migration flows in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) impose challenges to receiving countries’ health systems, which have to provide care to a larger population. These challenges are magnified by the fact that recent waves of migrants are particularly vulnerable to health risks in LAC and may not have full access to healthcare. In this paper, we revise the literature on the disparities in the health profile of migrants compared to natives and we identify w hich are the main sources of disparities in migrants’ access to healthcare presenting, when available, evidence of these disparities and their sources in LAC. Based on this evidence, we provide policy recommendations aimed at alleviating migrants’ health d isparities in LAC.
Socioeconomic Integration of Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees The Cases of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
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- Publication Date: 2021-07
The findings draw from a new analysis of Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) and other data by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The report explores the progression of socio-economic integration of refugees and migrants from Venezuela over three periods between 2017 and 2021 in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, which host more than 70 % of the 5.6 million Venezuelans who have left Venezuela since 2015. The report finds Venezuelans in the five case-study countries experience unemployment at higher rates than the receiving-country population, with many losing jobs during the pandemic. The public-health crisis also has taken a toll on newcomers’ income, with Venezuelans surveyed in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru last fall reporting a more than 50 % drop since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. Irregularity has also been a significant obstacle to integration in Ecuador and Peru during the pandemic.
Prenatal care of Venezuelans in Colombia: migrants navigating the healthcare system
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- Category: Health services
- Publication Date: 2021
This study explored the experiences of irregular Venezuelan migrants in accessing prenatal health services in Colombia, considering the economic, social and cultural resources mobilized by them to access care. Data were retrieved from the qualitative component of a multimethod research conducted with pregnant immigrants in Barranquilla, Colombia, between 2018 and 2019, and triangulated with a review of the norms established by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection. It was identified that this population having limited economic capital, used social capital from personal networks and migrant organizations. They obtained cultural capital in health in the form of information about the health system and used their cultural competencies to interact with this system.
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