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Title

  • Undocumented migrants and healthcare : eight stories from Switzerland

Summary

  • "What do undocumented migrants experience when they try to access healthcare? How do they navigate the (often contradictory) challenges presented by bureaucratic systems, financial pressures, attitudes to migrants, and their own healthcare needs? This urgent study uses a grounded theory approach to explore the ways in which undocumented migrants are included in or excluded from healthcare in a Swiss region. Marianne Jossen explores the ways migrants try to obtain healthcare on their own, with the help of NGOs or via insurance, and how they cope if they fail, whether by using risky strategies to access healthcare or leaving serious health issues untreated. Jossen shows that even for those who succeed, inclusion remains partial and fraught with risks. Based on interviews with migrants, health practitioners and NGO staff and using a rigorous academic approach, Undocumented Migrants and Healthcare is an important contribution to a vital contemporary issue. It is necessary reading for researchers in Public Health and Migration Studies, as well as government and non-governmental organisations in Switzerland and beyond. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with healthcare and migration in the twenty-first century."--Publisher's website.

Names

  • Jossen, Marianne, author.

Created / Published

  • Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2018.
  • ©2018

Contents

  • 1. Just going to hospital -- 2. Undocumented migrants, healthcare and health -- 3. Telling stories about healthcare for undocumented migrants -- 4. Settling in -- 5. The NGO and its network -- 6. Insurance -- 7. Healthcare for undocumented migrants -- 8. Literature.

Headings

  • -  Noncitizens--Government policy--Switzerland
  • -  Noncitizens--Health and hygiene--Switzerland--Case studies
  • -  Immigrants--Health and hygiene--Government policy--Switzerland

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publisher website, viewed on March 27, 2020).

Medium

  • 1 online resource (116 pages) : color illustrations

Call Number/Physical Location

  • RA989.S9

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019452728

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Jossen, Marianne, Author. Undocumented migrants and healthcare: eight stories from Switzerland. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, . ©, 2018. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019452728/.

APA citation style:

Jossen, M. (2018) Undocumented migrants and healthcare: eight stories from Switzerland. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, . ©. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019452728/.

MLA citation style:

Jossen, Marianne, Author. Undocumented migrants and healthcare: eight stories from Switzerland. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, . ©, 2018. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019452728/>.