GLOBALIZATION MIGRATION BENEFITS OF MIGRATION HEALTH RISK OF MIGRATION

1. Political Economy
Migration, Globalization and
Health

2. GLOBALIZATION
MIGRATION
BENEFITS OF MIGRATION
HEALTH RISK OF MIGRATION

3. GLOBALIZATION
‘Those processes that are intensifying
worldwide social relations and
interdependence’. They result from ‘complex
economic and social ties that link countries and
people around the world’
Facilitated by the increasing integration of the
world economy, especially of what he terms the
‘knowledge economy’ or ‘weightless economy’,
based on global transmission of information.
Anthony Giddens

4. GLOCALIZATION
Mcdonaldiation

5. MIGRATION
TYPES OF MIGRATION
voluntary and involuntary
permanent and temporary
legal and illegal
External and internal
Static migration

6. MIGRATION
Composition of migrant population
► Migration of Men
► Migration of Women
► Migration of Children

7. MIGRATION
MIGRATION OF PROFESSIONALS
►BRAIN GAIN
►BRAIN DRAIN
Case study of migration of professionals from
Ghana was used for the British Medical Act

8. MIGRATION
MIGRATION OF TOURISM
a mixed blessing
►It brings foreign exchange but act like a
cash crop- making people depend on cash
economy
►It over develop a site and brings crowding
of people which strains the local health
resources
►It can also bring sex tourism, exploiting
minors and spread STI

9. MIGRATION
o Healing system
o Microorganisms and Environmental Risk
o Pharmaceutical and drugs
o Body parts
o Cuisins
o Religion
o Weapons
o Information

10. BENEFITS OF MIGRATION
 It may bring migrant family even closer and
strengthen the emotional bonds between them.
 For refugees and other involuntary migrants fro
conflict areas safety from persecution and
physical danger are obvious
 for voluntary migrant it goes with the saying
“City Air makes man free”- new view of the
world and greater sense of Autonomy and
personal and social security
 The remitance of the migrants sent home
“Migradollars”

11. HEALTH RISK OF MIGRATION
MENTAL ILLNESS
Impact of migration on family structures
Inversions of migrant families
► general inversion
► gender role inversion
► time inversion
► space inversion

13. Thank you.

14. HEALTH RISK OF MIGRATION
MIGRATION AND MENTAL HEALTH:
THEORIES OF CAUSATION
 Multi-migration
 Push-pull
 Selection stress
 Host versus migrant
 Psychosocial transitions
 Cultural bereavement

15. MANAGEMENT OF MIGRANTS
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
PSYCHOTHERAPY
PSYCHIATRY
TRADITIONAL HEALING
SELF TREATMENT AND PREVENTIVE
STRATEGIES
1. Recreation of micro cultural worlds
2. Exaggeration of original culture
3. Keeping up physical contact with the old
country
4. Keeping up links or without returning or

16. MANAGEMENT OF MIGRANTS
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
5. Using the media to keep in contact
6. Self-help or mutual support groups
7. Maintaining a myth of return but never
actually returning
8. Returning to live in the old country
9. Creating a new life by rejection of the old
country and culture of origin