International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care: Volume 13 Issue 3

The transgenerational transmission of refugee trauma: family functioning and children’s psychosocial adjustment

Nina Thorup Dalgaard, Edith Montgomery

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of family functioning in the transgenerational transmission of trauma in a sample of 30 refugee families with traumatized parents…

Exploring the use of labor and delivery services by women of Haitian nationality in a Dominican Republic border town

Adrianne Katrina Nelson, Marguerite Fenwood, Courtney Burks, Alexandre Widner, Assiatou B. Bah, Ralph Ternier, Molly F. Franke

Women of Haitian nationality comprise a sizeable proportion of all women seeking labor and delivery services in a public hospital in Dominican Republic (DR), along the central…

Helping undocumented children in an emerging Latino community

M. Amalia Pesantes, Patricia I. Documet

The purpose of this paper is to describe and discuss the limitations of strategies that mothers of undocumented Latino children use in an emerging community to address the health…

Approaches to improve the interaction between general practitioners and migrants – a systematic review of international literature

Daniela Christen, Andreas Balthasar

Health monitoring of the migrant population in most European countries shows that migrants have a lower standard of health conditions than the resident population. One of the…

Health behaviour in the face of cultural conflict: perceptions of immigrant Muslim women

Ghezal Sabir, Gustaaf P. Sevenhuysen, Paul Fieldhouse, Kerstin Stieber Roger

The purpose of this paper is to describe immigrant Muslim women’s perceived barriers and facilitators to health behaviours relating to the interface between the cultural…

Morbidity differential among emigrants’ and non-emigrants’ wives in Kerala, India

Imtiyaz Ali, Ram B. Bhagat, Geetika Shankar, Raj Kumar Verma

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the overall morbidity prevalence and their differentials among emigrants’ and non-emigrants’ wives in Kerala, India.