Migrants and Health

Dr Christiane Falge, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS), Germany, Professor Carlo Ruzza, University of Leicester, UK and Professor Oliver Schmidtke, Director of the European Studies Program, University of Victoria, Canada

'The relationship between immigrants and health has become a "hot"topic. This book is therefore exceedingly timely and valuable in its comparative approach, exploring how migrants in three different host societies - Canada, Germany, and Italy - access health care resources as well as how the health care system responds to increasing population diversity. These authors clearly demonstrate that locality matters and that structure and agency must both be considered in the analysis of the migrant experience.' Caroline B. Brettell, Southern Methodist University, USA 'A book on diversity and its management in health care is long overdue. Our routine health services must improve their ability to cater fairly and equally for all members of society, including migrants...a timely contribution to this important debate.' Oliver Razum, Bielefeld University, Germany 'Health care has become the ground on which political and moral claims about human rights and cultural diversity are put to the test. The merit of this book is to demonstrate empirically how migrant groups in Canada, Germany and Italy are mobilizing strategies and resources in their mostly urban-based struggles for social inclusion and well-being in an increasingly interconnected yet disparate world.' Hansjörg Dilger, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

• Introduction: The Political Fight Over the Accommodation of Cultural Diversity; Chapter 1 Diversity in Health Care—A Discursive Field between Multiculturalism and Universalism; Chapter 2 Community Engagement and Political Advocacy in Canada, Germany, and Italy; Chapter 3 Political Advocacy in the Health Care System; Chapter 4 Barriers in Access to Care, Saime Ozcurumez, Lloy Wylie, Giulia Bigot, Rika Dauth; Chapter 5 Strategies for Change among Institutional and Civil Society Actors, Saime Ozcurumez, Lloy Wylie; conclusion Conclusion: Political Advocacy and Institutional Change in the Health Care System;