Migrants and Health

Political and Institutional Responses to Cultural Diversity in Health Systems
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7915-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Routledge Global Health Series

Integrating newcomers and minorities into the social fabric of receiving countries has become one of the crucial challenges of contemporary Western societies. This volume seeks to understand patterns of changing institutional practices and public policies where the challenges of including cultural diversity into the social fabric are most pronounced: namely the health care system. In recent years, pro-migrant organizations and anti-racist activists have repeatedly voiced and politicized demands to improve migrants' access to the health-care system giving rise to a lively debate about migrants' access to health-care and responsiveness of institutions to their needs. In a nutshell the book achieves the following: - Provides a conceptual framework to link patterns of political advocacy/mobilization and processes of migrants' socio-political inclusion - Integrates the (multi-disciplinary) literature on political mobilization and accommodating cultural diversity in an innovative fashion - Presents a comparative study on accommodating diversity in the health care system from a comparative transatlantic perspective - Generates insight into best practices in the health care system that will be of interest to scholars as well as practitioners in the field. The analysis of health care provision offers an opportunity to test new public policy strategies and the policy consequences of the now widespread aspiration to include citizens more fully in designing and implementing them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falge, Christiane

Ruzza, Carlo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Political Fight Over the Accommodation of Cultural Diversity; Chapter 1 Diversity in Health Care—A Discursive Field between Multiculturalism and Universalism; Chapter 2 Community Engagement and Political Advocacy in Canada, Germany, and Italy; Chapter 3 Political Advocacy in the Health Care System; Chapter 4 Barriers in Access to Care, Saime Ozcurumez, Lloy Wylie, Giulia Bigot, Rika Dauth; Chapter 5 Strategies for Change among Institutional and Civil Society Actors, Saime Ozcurumez, Lloy Wylie; conclusion Conclusion: Political Advocacy and Institutional Change in the Health Care System;

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Christiane Falge, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Germany, Professor Carlo Ruzza, University of Leicester, UK and Professor Oliver Schmidtke, Director of the European Studies Program, University of Victoria, Canada