Dear colleagues,
For the up-coming MAGic conference 2015. Anthropology and Global Health: interrogating theory, policy, and practice, University of Sussex, UK, 9-11 September 2015The cfp close on 27th April
we are inviting papers for a panel on: A human rights-based approach on migrants' right to health (Panel P22)Convenors: Laura Ferrero (Turin University, LDF)Chiara Quagliariello (Turin University, LDF)Ana Cristina Vargas (Turin University, LDF)
Short AbstractHow can a human rights-based approach be used in anthropological studies on migrants' right to health? Our panel propose fundamental rights as an instrument to analyse healthcare policies offering a common ground for an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.
Long AbstractFundamental rights, and in particular the right to the best attainable standard of physical and mental health, should be understood not only as a theoretical framework. It can also be an instrument to analyse healthcare policies, to evaluate the right to health of vulnerable groups, such as migrants, and to promote viable and adequate solutions.The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights stated that there are four criteria that National health services must comply with in order to ensure the right to health: availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality. These categories, even if not often used in Medical Anthropology, can offer a common ground for the development of an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.At the same time, concepts developed in Medical Anthropology such as structural vulnerability (Quesada, Hart, Bourgois), social suffering (Kleinman, Das, Lock) and structural violence (Farmer) can offer an essential contribution to the construction of a human rights-based approach to health issues thanks to their focus on inequities and social determinants of health.Moreover, ethnographical methodology can give voice to migrants’ experiences providing a critical understanding of the social reality in which the four criteria mentioned before are grounded and offering the opportunity to show that right to health does not correspond uniquely with access to healthcare.On these basis, we invite researchers working on the field of migrant’s right to health to submit proposals in one of the following areas:1. How can a human rights-based approach be used in anthropological studies on migrants’ right to health?2. What are the more relevant consequences of inequities, marginalization and other social determinants of health?3. How the privatisation of healthcare, the shrinking of public resources and normative restriction affects migrant’s right to health?4. What are the local/national answers of institutions, such as national health services, healthcare operators, migrants’ communities, associations and NGOs to provide and promote the right to health?
Please submit abstracts by 27 April 2015.Abstract submission:http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/magic2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3616Conference website:http://www.easaonline.org/networks/medical/events/magic2015/index.shtml
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