Health

COMPAS’ work on migration and health has mainly focused on access to health care services and the health implications of restricting access on the basis of immigration status.

We have also run a number of projects on social care, a sector where public policies create demand for migrant workers. The shortages of social-care workers and care assistants are largely due to the low wages and poor working conditions. Constraints in local authority budgets have contributed to chronic underinvestment, which has contributed to a growing demand for low-waged, flexible workers.

Blog Posts

Lockdown in India: Exodus as an expression of grievance

Manish Maskara

Shock Mobility: Convulsions in human migration are having large impacts (Part II)

Biao Xiang

Shock Mobility: Convulsions in human migration are having large impacts (Part I)

Biao Xiang

Safety is a political issue: Migrant domestic workers in China after the lock down

Chaoguo Xing

The “Caring Class” behind the “Grid Reaction” against Coronavirus

Jack Linzhou Xing

Rethinking EU Borders in the time of COVID-19

Elspeth Guild and Didier Bigo

Evacuating the Greek Refugee Camps and strengthening Europe from Below

Julia Schweers and Daniel Kersting

The Marooned Malaise: Covid-19 and Africa’s stolen futures

Loren B Landau

The mobility of a few for the survival of the many

Barclay Bram Shoemaker

The new power of the technologies of immobility

Sharifah Muhammad Talib Alhinai

‘Unprecedented’ pandemic and the crisis of mobility in India

Vyoma Dhar Sharma

When home does not exist, what does self-quarantine mean: street children in Tehran

Shahram Khosravi

How and why the mobility of a virus has led to abolishing key civil liberties

Franck Düvell

The Corona-pandemic: from parasitic mobility to convenient crisis

Stephan Scheel

‘Take me home’: The coronavirus virus and panic mobility

Robin Cohen

Locked-down cities, flying machines, and growing weeds: A note from China’s Epicentre

Ou Ning

Coronavirus: A (missed) chance to rethink racism?

Domiziana Turcatti

In response to ‘From Chain Reaction to Grid Reaction’.

Tianlong You

Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks

Osea Giuntella, Carlos Vargas-Silva & Catia Nicodemo

Steppes and the city: rural to urban migration in Mongolia [MSc guest blog]

Faraz Shibli

Permanent Residence and the power of bureaucracy

COMPAS Communications

Migration, Disability, and Plain Language [MSc guest blog]

Jonathan Paul Katz

Immigration Acts and health bills

COMPAS Communications

Illegality vs Irregularity

COMPAS Communications

How did migration play out in the 2015 General Election?

Ben Gidley

EU migration and welfare benefits: Is unrestricted labour immigration compatible with an inclusive welfare state?

Martin Ruhs

The right to have rights: Safeguarding children from destitution

Ben Gidley

Twenty years later the refugees are back

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Gender, class and migration governance: A labour sending country perspective

Hiranthi Jayaweera

Centering orality: Exploring gendered wartime violence with South Sudanese women elders

Sara Maher

Not racist, just resentful

Ben Gidley

What do we know about the reasons for migration and the social and economic characteristics of migrants in the UK?

COMPAS Communications

Migrant Women’s Health in Spain: A Snapshot of the Consequences of the Royal Decree-Law of Sanitary Regulation 16/2012

Ana Ballesteros Pena and Anna Morero Beltrán

What do I know about quantum mechanics?

COMPAS Communications

Are migrant health professionals welcome in the UK?

COMPAS Communications

Human rights in health: migrants in low-skilled work in Asia

COMPAS Communications

Italy’s story to tell on services for irregular migrants

Sarah Spencer and Nicola Delvino

Turning British

Mikal Mast

Boom and Bust: Where do migrant health professionals fit into the reforming NHS?

COMPAS Communications

Norway’s not so cuddly welfare state

Sarah Spencer

The Crisis in Ukraine and its Implications for Migration in Europe

COMPAS Communications

Health and border control

COMPAS Communications

Re-Thinking ‘Risk’ in Migration

Esra Kaytaz, DPhil Social Anthropology

Final Destination Maghreb: The transformation of transit countries

COMPAS Communications

Ten features of labour immigration policies in high-income countries

COMPAS Communications

Migrants in the Census: How to find them, and what to do with them

Anna Krausova, Research Officer, Migration Observatory

City responses to irregular migrants

Sarah Spencer

The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration (LAMFOR)

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Light of Evidence 2: the wider debate on migration

COMPAS Communications

Holding a mirror to ourselves: British Lifestyle migration

COMPAS Communications

Taking popularity seriously

COMPAS Communications

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – a film about migrants?

Mikal Mast

Migration and non-communicable diseases

COMPAS Communications

The Love of Learning: Migrants and Education

COMPAS Communications

Recipe for a diaspora: take one millionaire…

COMPAS Communications

Damned if you’re a migrant, damned if you’re not: Sri Lankan female domestic workers

COMPAS Communications

The Light of Evidence

COMPAS Communications

An exclusive party?

COMPAS Communications

Who’s in?

COMPAS Communications

Health and wellbeing of migrants: the ethnic density effect and other factors

COMPAS Communications

Legal but Unfair: The High Stakes of the UK Immigration Detention System

Stephanie Silverman, DPhil Politics and International Relations

Real integration takes time

COMPAS Communications

Books

Retirement Migration: Paradoxes of Ageing

Caroline Oliver

Reports

Access to Healthcare, Insurance Provision and Health Status of Sri Lankan Migrant Domestic Workers

Hiranthi Jayaweera, Elizabeth H. Shlala and the Centre for Women's Research (CENWOR)

Outside and In: Legal Entitlements to Health Care and Education for Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe

Sarah Spencer

The COMPAS Approach

Rob McNeil and COMPAS Communications

Irregular Migrants in Italy: Law and Policy on Entitlements to Services

Sarah Spencer and Nicola Delvino

IMPACIM: Country Case Study on the Impacts of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants: Qualitative Findings United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

No Way Out, No Way In. Irregular Migrant Children and Families in the UK

COMPAS Communications

No Way Out, No Way In. Irregular Migrant Children and Families in the UK. Executive Summary

COMPAS Communications

Clandestino: Undocumented Migration: Counting the Uncountable. Data and Trends across Europe: Country Report – UK

COMPAS Communications

Forced Labour and Migration to the UK

Bridget Anderson, Ben Rogaly

Managing Migration in Ireland: A Social and Economic Analysis

Martin Ruhs (author Chapters 3 and 7)

Introductory Programmes and Initiatives for New Migrants in Europe

Sarah Spencer, Anna di Mattia

Journal Articles

Transitory Legality: The Health Implication of Ending DACA

Marie L. Mallet & Lisa Garcia Bedolla

Differences in labour market outcomes between natives, refugees and other migrants in the UK

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Isabel Ruiz

The effects of immigration on NHS waiting times

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Osea Giuntella & Catia Nicodemo

Reason for immigration and immigrants’ health

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Osea Giuntella, Zovanga Kone & Isabel Ruiz

Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Osea Giuntella, Fabrizio Mazzonna & Catia Nicodemo

Fundamental Rights for Irregular Migrants: Legal Entitlements to Healthcare and School Education Across the EU28

Sarah Spencer

“I Am From Busia!”: Everyday Trading and Health Service Provision at the Kenya–Uganda Border as Place-Making Activities

William Allen

Health Status, Health Behaviour and Healthcare Use Among Migrants in the UK: Evidence from Mothers in the Millennium Cohort Study

Hiranthi Jayaweera, Maria Quigley

Working Papers

Immigrant fertility in the midst of intensified enforcement

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes & Esther Arenas-Arroyo

The Effects of Immigration on NHS Waiting Times

Osea Giuntella, Catia Nicodemo & Carlos Vargas-Silva

Migrant Britain, Sustainable Germany: Explaining Differences in the International Migration of Health Professionals

Kirsten Hoesch

Nepali Nurses in Great Britain: The Paradox of Professional Belonging

Sondra L. Hausner

The Relationship Between Immigration Status and Rights in the UK: Exploring the Rationale

Sarah Spencer, Jason Pobjoy

Being Children and Undocumented in the UK: A Background Paper

COMPAS Communications

Skilled Health Professionals’ Migration and its Impact on Health Delivery in Zimbabwe

Abel Chikanda

The Epidemiology of Migration and AIDS in South Africa

Mark Lurie

Other Publications

ECONREF Research Note: 1

The Health of Refugees in the UK

Carlos Vargas-Silva and COMPAS Communications

Legal and policy briefing

Migrant care leavers: Duties of Welsh local authorities under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014

COMPAS Communications

Legal and policy briefing

Access to Healthcare for Migrants in Wales

COMPAS Communications

Article

NHS equality policies focus too narrowly on ethnicity

COMPAS Communications

Policy Brief

Consistent Support and Mutual Learning Required

COMPAS Communications

Literature review and scoping report

Non-communicable diseases and risk factors in migrants from South Asian countries

Hiranthi Jayaweera and Amy K. McLennan

Projects

Equality for whom?

Sarah Spencer | 2010 – 2011

Integration Policies: Who Benefits?

COMPAS Communications | November 2013 – April 2015

PEAK Urban

Michael Keith and Bhawani Buswala | 1 October 2017 - 31 December 2021

Role of European Mobility and its Impacts in Narratives, Debates and EU Reforms (REMINDER)

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Madeleine Sumption, Rob McNeil and William Allen | January 2017 - December 2019

Service Provision to Irregular Migrants in Europe

Sarah Spencer | 2012 – 2015

Sri Lankan migrant women domestic workers: health insurance provision, access to healthcare and health status

COMPAS Communications | January 2014 – June 2015

The Coronavirus and Mobility Forum

COMPAS Communications | 2020

The Health Status of Migrants and Access to Health Care in the UK

COMPAS Communications | 2008 – 2010

Undocumented Migrant Children in the UK

COMPAS Communications | January 2010 – June 2012

WORK>INT: Assessing and enhancing integration in workplaces

COMPAS Communications | January 2014 – June 2015