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Migration experience and mental health: A qualitative study in France and Brazil
2021
Background:The relationship between migration and mental health is complex and involves factors at different levels, as the individual history of the migrant, the collective history of their home country, the host society’s and their mutual past history. Even though the migratory scenario of France and Brazil has changed over the years, both countries currently host an important number of immigrants.Aim:The main objective of the present study was to describe and analyze the impacts of the migratory experience on mental health of migrants with different migration experiences and living in two countries: France and Brazil.Method:Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 participants, …
Erosion of universal health coverage in Spain
2013
Whereas the recent UN resolution urges governments to accelerate progress towards universal access to affordable and quality health-care services, the Spanish Government, bypassing the parliamentary procedure, enacted a Royal Decree to limit access to free services at the point of delivery for all-undermining the principle of universal coverage. Spanish health and social service budgets have been subjected to large cuts (13,7% in 2012 and 16,2% in 2013) with some regions imposing additional budget cuts.
Immigrant prisoners in Italy. Cultural mediation to reduce social isolation and increase migrant prisoner well-being?
2022
Purpose This study aims to highlight how easy it is for immigrants to break Italian law because of the country’s inadequate cultural and linguistic mediation service. Insufficiencies in this service also have a negative impact on both the psychological and physical health of migrant prisoners. Furthermore, Italian is used in legal disputes and prison, and reference is made to Italian culture, preventing migrants from understanding their position regarding the law. Design/methodology/approach This report concerns the psychological discomfort of migrant incarcerated individuals within Italian prisons due to national laws in force. Consideration is also given to the negative impact on the phy…
When a virus (Covid-19) attacks human rights: The situation of asylum seekers in the medico-legal setting
2020
The Covid-19 pandemic is a global health emergency that requires immediate, effective action by governments to protect the health and basic human rights of everyone’s life. Refugees and migrants are potentially at increased risk because they typically live in overcrowded conditions often without access to basic sanitation. Since the beginning of the official lockdown for Covid-19, the medico-legal assessment of physical violence related to obtaining status or other forms of human protection has been frozen.
Placental alkaline phosphatase types in Germany
1974
The phenotypes of placental alkaline phosphatase were determined in a sample of 231 Germans and 109 non-Germans. The observed gene frequencies of the German sample were \({\text{Pl}}^{{\text{S}}_{\text{1}} } {\text{ = 0}}{\text{.654}}\), \({\text{Pl}}^{{\text{F}}_{\text{1}} } {\text{ = 0}}{\text{.247}}\), and \({\text{Pl}}^{{\text{I}}_{\text{1}} } {\text{ = 0}}{\text{.097}}\). No association could be found with placental weight. Lower birth weight was correlated with an increase of the \({\text{Pl}}^{{\text{I}}_{\text{1}} } \) gene frequency.
Recognising forced migrants in transnational social work
2018
PurposeNation states’ neoliberal policies do not regard asylum seekers and undocumented migrants as deserving of a good life. Social work in welfare states is highly connected to the policies of nation states. There is a need to address theories in social work that have a transnational focus at the local level. Axel Honneth’s recognition theory enables an approach to forced migration from the direction of personal relations and personhood itself. The core idea is that if people cannot gain recognition, this causes harm to their self-realisation. The purpose of this paper is discuss how the recognition theory overcomes a national focus in social work.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is …
Data from: Inter-annual variation and long-term trends in proportions of resident individuals in partially migratory birds
2016
Partial migration – a part of a population migrates and another part stays resident year-round on the breeding site – is probably the most common type of migration in the animal kingdom, yet it has only lately garnered more attention. Theoretical studies indicate that in partially migratory populations, the proportion of resident individuals (PoR) should increase in high latitudes in response to the warming climate, but empirical evidence exists for few species. We provide the first comprehensive overview of the environmental factors affecting PoR and the long-term trends in PoR by studying 27 common partially migratory bird species in Finland. The annual PoR values were calculated by divid…
Quando la poesia si fa operaia. Lavoratori migranti poeti della Cina contemporanea
2019
Il volume affronta la produzione poetica contemporanea dei lavoratori poeti migranti (dagong shiren) cinesi. In particolare, mette in luce la figura della poetessa Zheng Xiaoqiong, e indaga la produzione poetica anche di altri lavoratori poeti. The volume deals with the contemporary poetic production of Chinese migrant workers poets (dagong shiren). In particular, it highlights the woman poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, and investigates the poetic production of other worker poets, too.
La Méditerranée comme mer carnivore. Sidérer pour penser l’accueil dans Como si nunca hubieran sido de Javier Gallego «Crudo» et Juan Gallego
2021
International audience; La Méditerranée, véritable cimetière migratoire, est devenue la frontière la plus dangereuse au monde pour les migrants irréguliers. Porter un regard sur ceux qui passent oblige incontestablement à questionner les politiques d’accueils. Nous proposons d’interroger un objet hybride qui se situe entre la bande dessinée et la poésie : Como si nunca hubieran sido (Madrid : Reservoir Books, 2018) de Javier Gallego « Crudo » et Juan Gallego. Un ouvrage qui interroge le projet européen face aux enjeux des migrations politiques, économiques, climatiques. Nous analyserons les formes de sidération qui permettent de penser les vies qui comptent et celles que l’on ne compte que …
Mūsdienu Ukrainas imigrantu adaptācija Eiropas Savienībā un Kanādā.
2016
Autors, izmantojot starpdisciplināru pieeju, aplūko migrācijas situāciju Eiropas Savienībā un Kanādā, vairāk pētot migrācijas situāciju Latvijā un Ontārio, no migrācijas regulējumu, statistikas, adaptācijas un imigrantu integrācijas perspektīvām. Ņemot vērā to, ka ukraiņu imigrācija ir nozīmīga, tās pazīmes ir atspoguļotas no mūsdienu perspektīvas: dinamika laika gaitā, etnisko organizāciju loma, sociālās vides ietekme. Autors ir veicis kvalitatīvu pētījumu Latvijā un Ontārio, ar mērķi salīdzināt mūsdienu ukraiņu imigrantu adaptācijas procesus. Uzmanība ir vērsta uz to, lai spētu noteikt pievilkšanās-atgrūšanās migrācijas faktorus, problēmas, ar ko saskaras imigranti jaunā sabiedrībā: imigr…