Health and social services among international labor migrants : a comparative perspective
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Health and social services among international labor migrants : a comparative perspective
（CMAS border & migration studies series）
CMAS Books, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin : Distributed by arrangement with University of Texas Press, 1997
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Health & social services among international labor migrants
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"Papers read at a workshop titled 'International Migration: Health and Social Policies' held in Granada, Spain, in May 1995"--P. vii
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The contributors to this volume, representing a wide variety of disciplines (including medicine, social work, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and biology), are in agreement that the health and human services offered in industrial nations are generally monocultural, and not well suited for migrants from other cultures. One article even arrives at the disquieting conclusion that the mental health services offered to immigrants not only do not respond to their needs, but rather serve to reinforce negative perceptions regarding immigrants from third-world countries. This book represents a timely and urgently needed contribution to the discourse on health services for migrants. It demonstrates that the issues and problems of immigration in the United States and Europe have many commonalities, and that much can be learned from examining the experiences, successes, and failures of both.
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