Migration, Health, and Inequalities: Critical Activist Research across Ecuadorean Borders

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Drawing from an activist research project spanning Loja, Santo Domingo, New York, New Jersey, and Barcelona, this book offers a feminist intersectional analysis of the impact of migration on health and well-being. It assesses how social inequalities and migration and health policies, in Ecuador and destination countries, shape the experiences of migrants. The author also explores how individual and collective action challenges health, geopolitical, gender, sexual, ethnoracial, and economic disparities, and empowers communities. This is a thorough analysis of interpersonal, institutional, and structural mechanisms of marginalization and resistance. It will inform policy and research for better responses to migration’s negative effects on health, and progress towards greater equality and social justice. Front Cover Series Migration, Health, and Inequalities: Critical Activist Research across Ecuadorean Borders Copyright information Table of contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Series Preface 1 Introduction 2 Migration-related Health Processes Reflective mourning Active and passive migrant trauma Migratory stress Migrant crises triggers Return shock Unrecognized migratory resilience 3 Coping with the Challenges of Migration Disillusion adjustment Paralyzing and motivating nostalgia Denied migrant health and normalization of malaise Pain encapsulation Well-being ideal and transgenerational goals Strategic return Settling readjustment Involuntary return rebound 4 Post-migration Family Relationships Family de/re-construction Simultaneous migration of nuclear family with children Migration of parents without their children Fathers migrating alone Mothers migrating alone Migration of older siblings alone Childless couples Communication distortion Subordination to concealment and deception Unspoken pacts Resentment and detachment Sensible comprehension 5 Transformative Border Politics Geopolitical boundaries Gender/sexual regimes Ethnoracial hierarchies Socioeconomic borders 6 Conclusion Notes References Index Back Cover