A Research Workshop on Medical Migration

在过去的几十年里，以健康和生命的名义进行的人员、资本、技术和话语的跨国流动不断升级。被称为医疗游客和医疗难民的新型全球行为体是人们日益关注、关切和乐观的焦点。这些旅行者，从穷人到富人，从绝望到不满，跨越多重生物政治边界，为自己寻找生物医学治疗方法或为他人提供器官。虽然这些过程已经成为全球流动和当代生物政治的一个重要组成部分，但它们是移民研究和社会科学研究中一个未被充分分析的方面。本次研讨会探讨了这些生物医学治疗或“医疗迁移”的全球探索的条件。组织者召集了12位学者，他们的研究追踪了医疗移民的全球流动，在第一次系统调查中提出：这些跨国运动揭示了关于美、健康和生命的全球生物政治的当代状况和后果？讲习班以三个具体目标为指导：(1)发展和完善医疗移徙的分析范畴；(2)开发一套全面的、前沿的概念和方法，用于人类学研究以健康和生命的名义流通的人员、资本、技术和话语的全球流动；(3)通过出版关于医疗迁移主题的编辑卷来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.