A Research Workshop on Medical Migration

医疗移民研究研讨会

• 批准号: 0820712
• 负责人: Elizabeth Roberts
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0820712&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Workshop; Medical; Migration

The last decades have witnessed an escalation in the transnational movement of people, capital, technologies, and discourses circulating in the name of health and life. New kinds of global actors, termed medical tourists and medical refugees, are the focus of increased attention, concern, and optimism. These travelers, ranging from the poor to affluent, desperate to dissatisfied, traverse multiple biopolitical borders in search of biomedical therapeutics for themselves or to supply organs for others. While such processes have become a critical component of global mobility and contemporary biopolitics, they are an under-analyzed aspect of migration studies and social scientific research. This workshop explores the conditions of these global quests for biomedical therapeutics or "medical migrations." The organizers have convened twelve scholars, whose research tracks global flows of medical migrants, in the first systematic investigation to ask: what do these transnational movements reveal about the contemporary conditions and consequences of the global biopolitics of beauty, health, and life? The workshop is guided by three specific aims: (1) to develop and refine the analytic category of medical migration; (2) to develop a tool-kit of comprehensive and cutting-edge concepts and methods for anthropological research into the global flows of people, capital, technologies, and discourses, which circulate in the name of health and life; and (3) to disseminate the participant's collective work by publishing an edited volume on the topic of medical migrations intended to reach both a popular and an academic audience.

过去几十年来，人们以健康和生活的名义看到了人们，资本，技术和话语的跨国运动的升级。新型的全球参与者，被称为医疗游客和医疗难民，是越来越关注，关注和乐观的重点。 这些旅行者从贫穷到富裕的人，迫切希望不满意，遍历多个生物政治边界，以寻求生物医学治疗，或为他人提供器官。尽管这样的过程已成为全球流动性和当代生物政治的关键组成部分，但它们是移民研究和社会科学研究的不足方面。 该研讨会探讨了这些全球对生物医学治疗或“医学迁移”的条件。 组织者召集了十二名学者，他们的研究跟踪了全球医疗移民的流动，在首次系统的调查中问：这些跨国运动揭示了有关当代条件和全球美容，健康和生活生物政治的后果的什么？ 研讨会以三个具体目的为指导：（1）开发和完善医学迁移的分析类别； （2）开发一种综合和尖端的概念和方法，以对人类，资本，技术和话语的全球流量进行人类学研究，以健康和生命的名义散发； （3）通过出版有关旨在吸引受欢迎和学术受众的医学迁移主题的编辑卷来传播参与者的集体工作。