果冻影院

Module Content

This course is designed for medical and social anthropology students interested in the health challenges of migrant populations, and in particular those populations experiencing health inequity and related vulnerabilities. The scope of lectures and discussions provide an opportunity to consider key themes within the core discipline of medical anthropology and migration studies.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course students will have advanced their learning in the following core health and migration subjects:

• The Anthropology of Culture and Health
• Refugee Health and Statelessness
• Stigma, Invasive Others, and Migrant Health
• Health Inequity and Health Equality
• Ideology and Migration: Immunity and Infectious Disease
• Extreme Events and Migration
• Sociocultural Determinants of Migrant Health
• Migrant Vulnerability

Teaching Methods

The course is taught weekly throughout term as a two-hour seminar. The first hour is a lecture format. The second hour is devoted to student-led discussions around key required and optional readings. All students present twice during the term and work in groups prior to their presentations. Students submit an essay proposal at the end of the class and receive feedback before writing the final marked essay.

Additional Information

Key texts:

• Abubakar, Ibrahim, et al. 2018. 鈥楾he 果冻影院鈥揕ancet Commission on Migration and Health: The Health of a World on the Move鈥�. The Lancet 392 (10164): 2606鈥�54.
• Adams, Vicanne. 2013. Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Anderson Bridget. 2017. 鈥楾he Politics of Pests: Immigration and the Invasive Other鈥�. In The Invasive Other. Social Research 84 (1).
• Arendt, Hannah. 1951. 鈥楾he decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man鈥�. In The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Schocken Books.
• Bourgois, Philipe, et al. 2017. 鈥楽tructural Vulnerability: Operationalizing the Concept to Address Health Disparities in Clinical Care.鈥� Acad Med 92(3):299307.
• Casta帽eda, Heide, et al. (2015) 鈥淚mmigration as a Social Determinant of Health鈥�. Annual Review of Public Health 36: 375392.
• Costello, Anthony, et al. 2009. 鈥楳anaging the Health Effects of Climate Change鈥�. The Lancet 373 (9676): 1693鈥�1733.
• Fassin, Didier. 2007. 鈥楬umanitarianism as a Politics of Life鈥�. Public Culture, 19 (3): 499-520.
• Holmes, Seth. (2013). Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Kleinman, Arthur, and Peter Benson. 2006. 鈥楢nthropology in the clinic: the problem of cultural competency and how to 铿亁 it鈥�. PLOS Medicine 3(10): e294.
• Lyytinen, Eveliina. 2017. 鈥業nformal places of protection: Congolese refugees鈥� 鈥榗ommunities of trust鈥� in Kampala, Uganda鈥�. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43 (6): 991-1008.
• Marmot, Michael et al. 2008. Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health. World Health Organization.
• Metzl, Jonathan, and Helena Hansen. 2014. 鈥楽tructural competency: Theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality鈥�. Social Science & Medicine 103: 126133.
• Napier, A. David. 2017. 鈥楨pidemics and Xenophobia, or, Why Xenophilia Matters鈥�. In The Invasive Other, Social Research 84 (1).
• Napier, A. David, et al. 2014. 鈥楥ulture and Health鈥�. The Lancet 384 (9954): 1607鈥�39.
• Ong, Aihwa. 1995. 鈥楳aking the biopolitical subject: Cambodian immigrants, refugee medicine and cultural citizenship in California鈥�. Social Science and Medicine 40 (9): 1243-1257.
• Pickett, Kate and Wilkinson, Richard. 2010. The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone. London: Penguin.
• Quesada, James, Laurie K. Hart, and Philippe Bourgois. 2011. 鈥楽tructural vulnerability and health: Latino migrant laborers in the United States鈥�. Medical Anthropology 30(4): 339 362.
• Scott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the weak: everyday forms of peasant resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Ticktin, Miriam. 2006. 鈥榃here Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France鈥�. American Ethnologist 33 (1) Feb: 33-49.
• Wikan, Unni. 1990. Managing Turbulent Hearts: A Balinese Formula for Living. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Wilkinson, A., Parker, M., Martineau, F., & Leach, M. 2017. 鈥楨ngaging 鈥渃ommunities鈥�: Anthropological insights from the west African Ebola epidemic鈥�. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372( 1721).