The complexity of the data suggests a separation of the coordination from the implementation and the coordination being guarantied by this expert group consisting of an interdisciplinary team combining experiences in dealing with health, legal, social and economic aspects of the target population and ensuring integration of all services for migrants as well as optimal utilisation of available resources. The second component of the project is based on anthropological field work methodology. It was conducted in the community setting, investigating 20 migrant-households over one year. It studies the social networks of the two migrant groups and provides a situational analysis. Participatory observation was conducted at the household and community levels to determine the actual contemporary health strategies.
Results show that the networks of the migrant households are strongly transnationally structured.
They are an important source of support for health issues. However, they also produce relationships of obligation, which can be an additional burden for migrants. During illness episodes, migrants refer strongly to the social, political and organic dimensions of the disturbance, and their coping strategies reflect this. Besides seeking help from the somatic professional medical sector, they rarely refer to the folk sector, and the lay sector is especially restricted in the group of war-refugees. Data are currently being analysed to compare the clinical and the community perspectives.