Migration, Globalization and Health in Africa and the Diaspora
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 14293
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Comparative international sociology focusing on the intersection of gender: i. Globalization, migration, race, and identity; ii. Health, HIV/AIDS, and well-being; iii. Land, food security, social policy, and social movements; iv.Gender, social change, urbanization, and family; v. Social demography and research methods
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Interests: medical geography, population studies, environmental issues and health in Africa. i. Population and the environment; ii. Environmental resource issues; iii. Population dynamics: fertility, mortality, and migration; iv. Mapping the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa; examining the demographic, cultural, political, and geographic context in Africa and India; v. Primary health care and health care delivery systems in Africa
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This call for papers seeks to examine various facets of migration, globalization, and health in Africa and the Diaspora with a specific focus on refugee flows and the brain drain of health care personnel, as well as to highlight the trajectories of healthcare workers in their destination countries and the experiences of the African diaspora within the host healthcare systems.
The ascendant pattern of migratory flows from the Global South to the Global North has ushered in transnationalism within Africa and the diaspora. This Special Issue will interrogate the interplay of globalization, migration, and health in Africa and the diaspora. Africa has seen its fair share of political instability and civil wars, compounded by economic hardship, that have created refugee streams to Europe across the Mediterranean. This call for papers therefore provides an avenue to shed light on economic and refugee flows as well as to offer concrete interventions on forced displacement and related migrations.
Migration within and from African countries to the Global North has created profound implications on human health as trained medical personnel depart, leaving behind a vacuum. The healthcare workforce is the backbone of healthcare delivery. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for a 4% share of the global health workforce but shoulders 24% of the global disease burden. Comparatively, the Americas (USA and Canada) comprise 14% of the world’s population but bear only 10% of the global disease burden, yet they receive most of the global healthcare spending. Submissions that deal with this conundrum of a lack of funding in areas that need funding the most are encouraged, in addition to papers that examine the brain drain of trained medical doctors and healthcare providers from Africa.
We note that the formerly enslaved, together with current voluntary, African immigrants have become an integral part of the Diaspora. This has resulted in a shift in transnational interactions among care providers and care recipients as they traverse nationality, ethnic, racial, and other identities. What are the experiences of the African diaspora with the healthcare system in the destination countries? And what are the experiences of those working in the healthcare sector as they seek integration in their host societies?
Dr. Linda L. Semu
Prof. Ezekiel Kalipeni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Migration
- Globalization
- Health
- Diaspora
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