...-country study. The study was conducted among 31 female, Nigerian victims of trafficking in Italy. Findings The authors argue that family members play important, howbeit diverse roles across space and time, in the different stages of the trafficking process, echoing a relational approach...

.... In Italy, free access to health is provided to all migrants and residence permits for medical treatment is granted for migrants living with a “serious illness” since the 1990s. The case of HIV/Aids and hepatitis b shows how this political openness, however, clashes with the tightening of migration policies...

... by a quota sample in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Computer-assisted personal face-to-face interviews were conducted in German, Russian and Turkish. For this analysis, a subsample of 192 first-generation migrants aged 65–80 years from Turkey, Poland, Greece or Italy was drawn from the main sample...

...Silvana Rugolotto; Alice Larotonda; Sjaak van der Geest Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe how migration affects the care of older people in Italy. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on anthropological fieldwork by one of the authors. This consisted of in-depth...

...). African health problems African refugees Humanitarian exodus African spring Immigration Health care Italy The number of patients arrived in Lampedusa and the number of patients transferred to Sicilian hospitals by the 118 emergency service helicopters, are registered in Figure 1...

...Dawn Lyon This article makes use of the concept of boundary‐work (Lamont, 2002) to explore representations of migrant women. The research is based on 35 life‐history interviews with Bulgarian and Hungarian migrant women resident in Italy, and on 18 semi‐structured interviews with Italian women...

...Giulia Bigot; Stefano Fella The literature on health care provision for immigrants in Italy has generally been considered to be less relevant than in other sectors in terms of exclusion, due to the universalistic mission and organisation of the health system. Nevertheless, studies have suggested...