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Globalization, including the global flows of people, is clearly linked to disease transmission and vulnerability to health risks among immigrant populations. Anthropological research on transnational migration and health documents the implications of population movements for health and well-being. Studies of immigrant health reveal the importance of the social, political, and economic production of distress and disease as well as the structures and dynamics that produce particular patterns of access to health services. This review points to underlying political, economic, and social structures that produce particular patterns of health and disease among transnational migrants. Both critical and phenomenological analyses explore ideas of alterity and community, which underlie the production and management of immigrant health. Research on immigrant health underscores the importance of further attention to policies of entitlement and exclusion, which ultimately determine health vulnerabilities and accessibility of health care.

Strategies of state surveillance shape the construction of migrant identities in France. Focusing on migrants from the Senegal River Valley in West Africa, the authors suggest that ideological and institutional constraints concerning legal status and family reunification create a shifting world of unstable identities for these migrants. The fall 2005 riots across France have been widely cited as an illustration of the failure of the French model of immigrant integration. Restrictive legislation since 1975 has challenged gender relations in migrant communities. The gendered production of immigrant identities merits special attention; women's and men's diverse experiences require differing strategies of adjustment. During the past 30 years, anti-immigrant discourse/practice has effectively contested the state policy of integration and its emphasis on achieving nationality as the ultimate immigrant objective. The gendered strategies of West African migrants demonstrate that state polices have created a new category of migrants whose everyday lives seem permanently in transition.

Através da comparação de conexões e interações entre França e África Ocidental e do uso das telecomunicações por imigrantes chegando à França em períodos diversos entre 1965 e 2005, este artigo demonstra a relevância dessas tecnologias de comunicação na (re)definição da distância social e na facilitação do envolvimento continuado de migrantes na tomada de decisões familiares nas suas comunidades de origem.

Le développement des nouvelles technologies et notamment de la téléphonie mobile a modifié le lien que les migrants entretiennent avec leur famille restée au pays. Chacun, ici ou là-bas, se réjouit d'être en contact rapide et direct avec les parents et de pouvoir régler plus rapidement certains problèmes et conflits. Mais la communication moderne accroît aussi les responsabilités et les possibilités de pressions familiales. Enquête à Paris, chez des migrants originaires du bassin du fleuve Sénégal, situé en Afrique de l'Ouest et partagé par la Guinée, le Mali, la Mauritanie et le Sénégal.