Irregular Migration and Health
- Document number
- 1880
- Date
- 2004
- Title
- Irregular Migration and Health
- Author/publisher
- Douglas W. MacPherson, Global Migration Perspectives No. 7
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures, Drugs abuse, Health, HIV/AIDS, Globalisation;
- Summary
- The regulation or control of transnational movements of non-citizens is one of the defining characteristics of a state and an expression of its sovereign right to manage its borders. Historically, national identities have been shaped by shared regional similarities in terms of ethnicity, language, culture and history. At the same time it is the differences associated with ‘foreignness' that define the boundaries of nationality to the "outside world". This concept - that the international geopolitical border can delineate the boundaries of a nation - has always been affected and challenged by the migration of people from other locations. Some of those challenges have been, in part, related to or affected by concerns and fears related to health and disease.
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