A Research Workshop on Medical Migration

在过去的几十年里，人们目睹了以健康和生命的名义传播的人员、资本、技术和话语的跨国流动的升级。新型的全球行动者，被称为医疗游客和医疗难民，是越来越多的关注，关注和乐观的焦点。 这些旅行者，从穷人到富人，从绝望到不满，穿越多个生物政治边界，为自己寻找生物医学治疗方法或为他人提供器官。虽然这些过程已成为全球流动和当代生物政治的重要组成部分，但它们是移徙研究和社会科学研究的一个分析不足的方面。 本研讨会探讨了这些全球性的生物医学治疗或“医疗移民”的条件。“组织者召集了12位学者，他们的研究跟踪了全球医疗移民的流动，在第一次系统调查中提出了这样一个问题：这些跨国运动揭示了关于美丽，健康和生命的全球生物政治的当代状况和后果？ 研讨会有三个具体目标：（1）发展和完善医疗移民的分析类别;（2）开发一套全面和尖端的概念和方法工具包，用于人类学研究以健康和生命的名义传播的全球人口流动、资本流动、技术流动和话语;和（3）通过出版一本关于医疗移民主题的编辑卷，传播参与者的集体工作，旨在达到大众和学术受众。

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.