Progress in the study of health inequalities and selective migration: Mobilising the new mobilities paradigm

Abstract

This paper seeks to deepen understandings of the relations between health inequalities and migration, with a particular emphasis on health-selective migration. Papers in this journal have urged for a more nuanced consideration of connections between migration and health but these have not seen-through how to combine understandings of health and migration to better theorise their relations. A strong theoretical basis regarding the politics of mobilities can help say more of the structural factors shaping health-selective migration and therefore, changing health gradients in a population.

Positioning possibilities for human geographies of the sea: Automatic Identification Systems and its role in spatialising understandings of shipping

“…However as Manderscheid notes, this research is primarily qualitative in style and other questions may asked by quantitative analysis and in complementing some qualitative concerns (2016, see also Darlington‐Pollock & Peters, 2020). What such data offers may be a ‘bigger picture’ context to the ‘small stories’ of qualitative work (Lorimer, 2003).…”

Healthy Mobilities

“…In parallel, ideas emanating from the mobility turn have dispersed through fields concerned with health. These entanglements have been traced variously, for example, through analyses pertaining to healthcare access 2 , migration and health inequalities 3 , reproductive mobilities 4 , the movement of medical materials 5 , and extensive work on active travel 6 . The diversity of these health mobilities have been most thoroughly brought together through conceptualizations of therapeutic mobilities, consisting of "multiple movements of health-related things and beings including, though not limited to, nurses, doctors, patients, narratives, information, gifts and pharmaceuticals" 7 .…”