020062 KU Migration und Gesundheit (Wahlfach) (2010S)

Migration and Health: Sociological, ethical and legal parameters of health care for migrants with legal status and for irregular migrants, of migration-specific impacts on health and migration specific intercultural issues: Overviewing different types of migration, legal frameworks and on relevant themes of current migration research; Access to health care for migrants in transit countries (diseases, primary health care, health care actors, legal protection); Life in Europe without a legal status (public health care and parallel structures; differences across national health systems; possibilities and limits of European harmonisation; state and NGOs as health care providers); Administrative detention as a factor that contributes to illness ("vulnerability" in the view of migrants and in political and administrative practice); Health policies for migrants and it's relation to integration policy; Health care and highly qualified migrants; Tensions between human rights claims and national law; The seminar programme foresees an excursion to discuss health care policies with a group of migrants.