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Semester 2
Anthropology of Health and Migration (SCAN10085)
Subject
Social Anthropology
College
CAHSS
Credits
20
Normal Year Taken
3
Delivery Session Year
2023/2024
Pre-requisites
Visiting students must have completed at least 3 Social Anthropology courses at grade B or above. We will only consider University/College level courses.
Course Summary
In this course we examine the social, political and economic production of diseases and their interaction with processes of migration, transit, legal status, and migrants - incorporation into the places to which they migrate, over time - as well as their effects on the places of origin. We will offer anthropological perspectives on some of the great crises of migrant health in our times.
Course Description
Health and migration have been intertwined historically, from the 19th century rejection of undesirable Southern and Eastern European and Asian immigrants at Ellis and Angel Islands on the grounds of medicalised prejudice, to present-day requirements of pre-entry health screening of immigrants to the UK, and the forced deportation of migrant labourers from the Persian Gulf countries for their HIV positive status. This course will use ethnographic case studies and anthropological theory to understand these historical entanglements and what those understandings may offer to make sense of our present condition in relation to health and migration. Moving between case studies exploring the health experiences of different streams of migrants, the course works towards driving policy and political questions concerning the biopolitical governance of migration.
Assessment Information
Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%
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