Health and Social Services among International Labor Migrants
Subtitle: A Comparative Perspective (CMAS Border & Migration Studies Series)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780292785366
Subjects: Ethnography; Health systems & services; Migrant Workers; Social Welfare Services For Special Classes; Social Science; Sociology; Emigration & Immigration; Health Care Delivery; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Social Science / General; Europe; Medical care; Migrant labor; Transcultural medical care; United States
Description: The contributors to this volume, representing a wide variety of disciplines (including medicine, social work, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and biology), are in agreement that the health and human services offered in industrial nations are generally monocultural, and not well suited for migrants from other cultures.

One article even arrives at the disquieting conclusion that the mental health services offered to immigrants not only do not respond to their needs, but rather serve to reinforce negative perceptions regarding immigrants from third-world countries.

This book represents a timely and urgently needed contribution to the discourse on health services for migrants. It demonstrates that the issues and problems of immigration in the United States and Europe have many commonalities, and that much can be learned from examining the experiences, successes, and failures of both.