ArticleFrontiers in sociology2020
Policy Makers', NGO, and Healthcare Workers' Accounts of Migrants' and Refugees' Healthcare Access Across Europe-Human Rights and Citizenship Based Claims.
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- Migrant Farmworkers' Acceptability of Health Services in Spain: Barriers and Facilitators Identified by Professionals.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Barriers to healthcare access and continuity of care among Ukrainian war refugees in Europe: findings from the RefuHealthAccess study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Uncovering multi-level mental healthcare barriers for migrants: a qualitative analysis across China, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, and South Africa.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Communicating international politics narratives of security, democracy and human rights in contemporary society: indexing and analysis using online monitoring data.Frontiers in sociology · 2024Article
- Characterizing non-communicable disease trends in undocumented migrants over a period of 10 years in Italy.Scientific reports · 2023Observational
- A Qualitative Research Study Which Explores Humanitarian Stakeholders' Views on Healthcare Access for Refugees in Greece.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- A retrospective review of specialist referrals for refugees into Greece's health system: A humanitarian organization's perspective.Avicenna journal of medicineArticle
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Abstract
Freely available healthcare, universally accessible to the population of citizens, is a key ideal for European welfare systems. As labor migration of the twentieth century gave way to the globalized streams of the twenty-first century, new challenges to fulfilling these ideals have emerged. The principle of freedom of movement, together with large-scale forced migration have led to large scale movements of people, making new demands on European healthcare systems which had previously been largely focused on meeting sedentary local populations' needs. Drawing on interviews with service providers working for NGOs and public healthcare systems and with policy makers across 10 European countries, this paper considers how forced migrants' healthcare needs are addressed by national health systems, with factors hindering access at organizational and individual level in particular focus. The ways in which refugees' and migrants' healthcare access is prevented are considered in terms of claims based on citizenship and on the human right to health and healthcare. Where claims based on citizenship are denied and there is no means of asserting the human right to health, migrants are caught in a new form of inequality.
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