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Migration, Health and Inequality highlights recent developments in the areas of migration, human rights and health from a range of countries. Looking at diverse health issues, from HIV to reproductive and maternal health, and a variety of forms of migration, including asylum-seeking, labour migration and trafficking, it offers a range of linkages between migrant agency, transnationalism and diaspora mechanisms and looks at the impact of migrant health on those communities that are left behind

The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality, culture and health. What was once a set of specialist concerns has been steadily mainstreamed. Alongside this, a broader interest has developed in 'social' and 'cultural' factors relating to sexuality and sexual health, from family planning and STI management to gender and intimate partner violence and the technologisation of sex.This book offers a research-based overview of key topics relevant to social and cultural perspectives on sexuality and sexual health. Beginning with an extended introduction

Narratives of self‐responsibility are pervasive in neoliberally oriented contexts, and have been found to engender feelings of shame and failure amongst those affected by poverty. Here, we use findings from research in two low‐income communities in south‐west England to examine how these narratives become embodied within people's daily lives when they intersect with systems of welfare support and the current political drive to upscale treatment for common mental health conditions. Drawing on Bourdieu's notion of symbolic violence, we examine how narratives of self‐responsibility and associated welfare reform strategies impact on the mental health of people living in economic hardship. The data show how such narratives inflict, sustain and exacerbate mental distress and suffering, and how they become naturalised and normalised by individuals themselves. We demonstrate how this situation pushes people to seek support from General Practitioners, and how clinical interactions can normalise, and in turn, medicalise, poverty‐related distress. Whilst some people actively resist dominant narratives around self‐responsibility, we argue that this is insufficient under broader sociocultural and political circumstances, to free themselves from the harms perpetuated by symbolic violence.

This paper examines the impact of increased welfare conditionality on people with mental health issues claiming benefits in the UK. Drawing on data from the DeStress study, this paper explores the lived experience of welfare claimants in low-income communities, and the perspectives of GPs seeking to support them. Particular focus is placed on people's experience of the Work Capability Assessment, the tool used to determine welfare claimants' entitlement to sickness benefit, and how the narratives and culture surrounding welfare reform and the actual assessment itself can have a negative impact on mental health and wellbeing.

1. Migration and HIV infection : what does data from destination countries show? / Islene Araujo, Mary Haour-Knipe, Karl Dehne -- 2. Leaving loved ones behind : Mexican gay men's migration to the USA / Hector Carrillo -- 3. Concentrated disadvantages : neighbourhood context as a structural risk for Latino immigrants in the USA / Emilio A. Parrado, Chenoa A. Flippen, Leonardo Uribe -- 4. Conflict, forced migration, sexual behaviour, and HIV/AIDS / Bayard Roberts and Preeti Patel -- 5. Negotiating migration, gender, and sexuality : health and social services for HIV-positive people from minority ethnic backgrounds in Sydney / Henrike Karner -- 6. Treat with care : Africans and HIV in the UK / Jane Anderson -- 7. Touristic borderlands : ethnographic reflections on Dominican social geographies / Mark B. Padilla and Daniel Castellanos -- 8. Rice, rams, and remittances : bumsters and female tourists in the Gambia / Stella Nyanzi and Ousman Bah -- 9. Fantasies, dependency, and denial : HIV and the sex industry in Costa Rica / Jacobo Schifter and Felicity Thomas -- 10. 'Que gusto estar de vuelta en mi tierra' : the sexual geography of transnational migration / Jennifer Hirsch and Sergio Meneses Navarro -- 11. From migrating men to moving women : trends in South Africa's changing political economy and geography of intimacy / Mark Hunter -- 12. Labour migration and risky sexual behaviour : tea plantation workers in Kericho District, Kenya / Kennedy Nyabuti Ondimu -- 13. Young sex workers in Ethiopia : linking migration, sex work, and AIDS / Lorraine van Blerk -- 14. Labour migration and HIV risk in Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow -- 15. Migration, men's extramarital sex, and the risk of HIV infection in Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith -- 16. Migration, detachment, and HIV risk among rural-urban migrants in China / Xiushi Yang.

Mobility, Sexuality and AIDS recognises the complex relationships between individual circumstances, different forms of migration and the different ways in which communities and states respond. It will be invaluable for students and academics of migration, development studies, anthropology, sociology, geography and public health

AbstractThe independent review of children's social care (2022) has proposed a radical reset of England's children's services, shifting a remote, assessment heavy system towards one that works alongside communities to help prevent statutory interventions. However, notions around the harnessing of community resources to deliver Early Help are often underpinned by assumptions regarding the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector and the ease with which such organizations can be integrated into preventative strategies. This paper reports findings from embedded research within a unitary authority in Southwest England during remodelling of its Early Help service to work more collaboratively with local VCSE organizations. The study generated data from ethnographic observations, semi‐structured interviews and focus groups with 95 participants, including local parents, service providers, VCSE organizations and Council leaders. The findings illustrate that families value the compassionate, responsive and flexible support available within many VCSE settings. However, differences in practice cultures, regulatory pressures on statutory providers, the need to (re)build trust in communities and sensitivities around power‐sharing and resourcing meant negotiating VCSE sector integration was fraught with complexities. Few studies have gained such privileged access to a Local Authority's remodelling of Early Help services, and this paper has significant insights for the debates surrounding the independent review of children's social care (2022) and its recommendation to bring services 'closer to communities'.