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SYLLABUS - CLASS NO., Winter Quarter

Class Name:  Migration and Health - SOC 539 (Selected Topics in Demography and Ecology)

Class Meeting Times and Location:   Denny 310, Thursdays 1:30 - 3:20pm

Instructor: Susie Cassels
Office:
 Raitt 218M
Office Hours:
By Appointment
E-mail:
scassels@u.washington.edu
Phone:
 206-616-2507

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to investigate the interrelationships between migration and health, focusing both on the myriad of health issues experienced by migrants and on how they affect the health of populations. Students will gain an understanding of the theories underlying the study of migration and the migration-health relationship, in addition to a substantive understanding of the key health issues affecting migrant populations. The course will examine health issues among all types of migrant populations, both in developed and developing countries.

Throughout human history, migrations have played a central role in the evolution and transmission of infectious agents. This process will be discussed in both historical and contemporary terms. Through a series of case studies we also investigate current issues of migrant health, including migration and HIV, labor migration and health, the Hispanic paradox in the US, refugee health, and health issues surrounding urbanization. We will pay particular attention to empirical methods and models. Lastly, throughout the course we will investigate the subtle policy issues that surround migration and health, and link this to ethical issues of equity in heterogeneous populations.

Additionally, each class will include a brief overview of a particular disease relevant to the week’s topic. Knowledge about the disease and how it is transmitted is critical to understanding how social ontext and behavior can influence infectivity, susceptibility, and spread.

 

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Grading Policy

  • Read everything assigned and actively participate in classroom discussion (25%)
  • 1 weekly review, presentation and group critical discussion (25%)
  • Final paper (50%)

 

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Required Readings

This is a DRAFT reading list - There will be no more than 5 required readings per week

January 11: Historical episodes of migration and disease spread

  • Cliff, Andrew and Peter Haggett. 2004. "Time, travel and infection" British Medical Bulletin 69:87-99.

  • Dobson, A. P. and E. R. Carper. 1996. "Infectious diseases and human population history - Throughout history the establishment of disease has been a side effect of the growth of civilization." Bioscience 46:115-126.

  • Morton, R.S. and S Rashid. 2001. ""The syphilis enigma": the riddle resolved?" Sexually Transmitted Infections 77:322-324.

  • Patterson, Kristine B. and Thomas Runge. 2002. "Smallpox and the Native American." American Journal of the Medical Sciences 323:216-222.

  • Smallman-Raynor, M. and A. D. Cliff. 2000. "The epidemiological legacy of war: The Philippine-American War and the diffusion of cholera in Batangas and La Laguna, South-West Luzon, 1902-1904." War In History 7:29-64.

Additional readings:

  • Alden, D. and J. C. Miller. 1987. "Out Of Africa - The Slave-Trade and the Transmission Of Smallpox To Brazil, 1560-1831." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18:195-224.

  • 2001. "Epidemic diffusion processes in a system of US military camps: Transfer diffusion and the spread of typhoid fever in the Spanish-American War, 1898." Annals Of The Association Of American Geographers 91:71-91.

January 18: Colonialism, labor migration & disease

  • Dawson, Marc H. 1979. "Smallpox in Kenya, 1880-1920." Social Science and Medicine 13:245-250.

  • Dumett, Raymond. 1993. "Disease and mortality among gold miners of Ghana: colonial government and mining company attitudes and policies, 1900-1938." Social Science and Medicine 37:213-232.

  • Mohamed, Jama. 1999. "Epidemics and public health in early colonial Somaliland." Social Science and Medicine 48:507-521.

  • Packard, Randall M. 1989. White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press. Read Introduction, *skim* Chapters 3 & 4

Additional readings:
  • DeLancey, Mark W. 1978. "Health and disease on the plantations of Cameroon, 1884-1939." Pp. 153-179 in Disease in African History: An introductory survey and case studies, edited by G. W. Hartwig and K. D. Patterson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

January 25: Contemporary migration, development, & urbanization

  • Keiser, Jennifer, Jurg Utzinger, Marcia Caldas De Castro, Thomas A. Smith, Marvel Tanner, and Burton H. Singer. 2004. "Urbanization in Sub-Suaharan Africa and implications for malaria control." The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 71:118-127.

  • Nguyen, Liem T. and Michael J. White. 2002. "Health status, urbanward migration, and government policy in urban areas in Vietnam." in IUSSP. Bangkok, Thailand.

  • Prothero, R. M. 2001. "Migration and malaria risk." Health Risk & Society 3:19-38.

  • Singer, Burton H. and Marcia Caldas De Castro. 2001. "Agricultural Colonization and Malaria on the Amazon Frontier." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 954:184-222.

  • Zulu, E. M., F. N. A. Dodoo, and A. Chika-Ezeh. 2002. "Sexual risk-taking in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, 1993-98." Population Studies-A Journal Of Demography 56:311-323.

Additional readings:

  • Colizza, Vittoria, Alain Barrat, Marc Barthelemy, and Alessandro Vespignani. 2006. "The role of the airline transportation n etwork in the prediction and predictability of global epidemics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:2015-2020.

  • De Castro, Marcia Caldas, Roberto L. Monte-Mór, Diana O. Sawyer, and Burton H. Singer. 2006. "Malaria risk on the Amazon frontier." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:2452-2457.

  • De Castro, Marcia Caldas, Yoichi Yamagata, Deo Mtasiwa, Marcel Tanner, Jurg Utzinger, Jennifer Keiser, and Burton H. Singer. 2004. "Integrated urban malaria control: A case study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania." The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 71:103-117.

  • Keiser, Jennifer , Marcia Caldas De Castro, M.F. Maltese, R. Bos, Marcel Tanner, Burton H. Singer, and Jurg Utzinger. 2005. "Effect of irrigation and large dams on the burden of malaria on a global and regional scale." The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 72:392-406.

February 1: Migration and HIV

  • Brockerhoff, M. and A. E. Biddlecom. 1999. "Migration, Sexual behavior and the risk of HIV in Kenya." International Migration Review 33:833-856.

  • Hunt, Charles W. 1989. "Migrant labor and sexually transmitted disease: AIDS in Africa." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 30:353-373.

  • Lurie, M. N., B. G. Williams, K. Zuma, D. Mkaya-Mwamburi, G. P. Garnett, M. D. Sweat, J. Gittelsohn, and S. S. A. Karim. 2003. "Who infects whom? HIV-1 concordance and discordance among migrant and non-migrant couples in South Africa." Aids 17:2245-2252.

  • Lurie, M., A. Harrison, D. Wilkinson, and S. A. Karim. 1997. "Circular
    migration and sexual networking in the rural KwaZulu/Natal: implications for
    the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases." Health
    Transition Review 7 (Suppl. 3)17-27.

  • Yang, X. 2006. "Temporary migration and HIV risk behaviors in China." Environment And Planning A 38:1527-1543.

  • Zuma, K., M. N. Lurie, B. G. Williams, D. Mkaya-Mwamburi, G. P. Garnett, and A. W. Sturm. 2005. "Risk factors of sexually transmitted infections among migrant and non-migrant sexual partnerships from rural South Africa." Epidemiology And Infection 133:421-428.

Additional Readings:

  • Coast, E. 2006. "Local understandings of, and responses to, HIV: Rural-urban migrants in Tanzania." Social Science & Medicine 63:1000-1010.

  • Lurie, M. 2000. "Migration and AIDS in southern Africa: a review." South African Journal Of Science 96:343-347.

  • Lurie, M.N. 2006. "The epidemiology of migration and HIV/AIDS in South Africa." Journal Of Ethnic And Migration Studies 32:649-666.

  • Lurie, M.N., B. G. Williams, K. Zuma, D. Mkaya-Mwamburi, G. P. Garnett, A. W. Sturm, M. D. Sweat, J. Gittelsohn, and S. S. A. Karim. 2003. "The impact of migration on HIV-1 transmission in South Africa - A study of migrant and nonmigrant men and their partners." Sexually Transmitted Diseases 30:149-156.

  • Lydié, N., N.J. Robinson, B. Ferry, E. Akam, M. De Loenzien, and S. Abega. 2004. "Mobility, Sexual Behavior, and HIV nfection in an Urban Population in Cameroon." Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 35:67-74.

  • Sambisa, W. and C. S. Stokes. 2006. "Rural/urban residence, migration, HIV/AIDS, and safe sex practices among men in Zimbabwe." Rural Sociology 71:183-211.

February 8: Refugee health & forced migration

  • Kazuko, Watanabe. 1994. "Militarism, Colonialism, and the Trafficking of Women: "Comfort women" forced into sexual labor for Japanese soldiers." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 26:3-17.

  • Papageorgiou, V., A. Frangou-Garunovic, R. Iordanidou, W. Yule, P. Smith, and P. Vostanis. 2000. "War trauma and psychopathology in Bosnian refugee children." European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 9:84 – 90.

  • Prothero, R. M. 1994. "Forced Movements of Population and Health-Hazards in Tropical Africa." International Journal of Epidemiology 23:657-664.

  • Salama, Peter, Paul Spiegel, Leisel Talley, and Rondal Waldman. 2004. “Lessons learned from complex emergencies over past decade.” The Lancet 364(9447): 1801 – 1803.

  • Toole, M.J. and R.J. Waldman. 1997. “The Public Health Aspects of Complex Emergencies and Refugee Situations.” Annual Review of Public Health 18: 283 – 312. *SKIM*

Additional Readings:

  • Roberts, Bayard. "Thematic guide: Forced migration and public health." Forced Migration Online.

  • Spiegel, Paul and Helene Harroff-Tavel. 2006. "HIV/AIDS and internationally displaced persons in 8 priority countries." United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

  • Thomas, S. L. and S. D. Thomas. 2004. "Displacement and health." British Medical Bulletin 69:115-127.

February 15: Migration and health in the US

  • Cornelius, Wayne A. 2001. "Death at the Border: Efficacy and Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Control Policy." Population and Development Review 27 (4): 661-685.

  • Franzini, L. and M. E. Fernandez-Esquer. 2004. "Socioeconomic, cultural, and personal influences on health outcomes in low income Mexican-origin individuals in Texas." Social Science & Medicine 59:1629-1646.

  • Goel, M. S., E. P. McCarthy, R. S. Phillips, and C. C. Wee. 2004. "Obesity among US immigrant subgroups by duration of residence." Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association 292:2860-2867.

  • Gordon-Larsen, P., K. M. Harris, D. S. Ward, and B. M. Popkin. 2003. "Acculturation and overweight-related behaviors among Hispanic immigrants to the US: the national longitudinal study of adolescent health." Social Science & Medicine 57:2023-2034.

  • Holmes, Seth M. 2006. "An ethnographic study of the social context of migrant health in the United States." Public Library of Science Medicine 3.

February 22: Health impacts on migrant-sending communities

  • Chikanda, Abel. 2006. "Skilled health professionals' migration and its impact on health delivery in Zimbabwe." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 32 (4): 667-680.

  • Kanaiaupuni, Shawn Malia, and Katherine M. Donato. 1999. "Migradollars and Mortality: The effects of migration on Infant Survival in Mexico." Demography 36(3): 339-353.

  • Lindstrom, David P., and Elisa Munoz-Franco. 2006. "Migration and maternal health services utilization in rural Guatemala." Social Science and Medicine 63 (3): 706-721.

  • Mullan Fitzhugh, 2005. "The Metrics of the physician brain drain." New England Journal of Medicine 353 (17): 1810-1818 OCT 27 2005

Additional Readings:

  • Durand, Jorge, Parrado, Emilio A., and Douglas S. Massey. 1996. “Migradollars and Development; A Reconsideration of the Mexican Case.” International Migration Review 30(2): 423-444.

  • Diallo, Khassoum. 2004. "Data on the migration of health-care workers: sources, uses and challenges." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 82:601-607.

  • Stilwell, B., K. Diallo, P. Zurn, M. Vujicic, O. Adams, and M. Dal Poz. 2004. "Migration of health-care workers from developing countries: strategic approaches to its management." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 82:595-600.

March 1: Complex systems & bio-social perspectives

  • Massey, DS. 2004. "Segregation and Stratification: A biosocial perspective." Du Bois Review 1:7-25.

  • Singer, B and Ryff, CD. 1999. "Hierarchies of life histories and associated health risks." Pp. 96-115 in Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrial Nations, vol. 896, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

  • Sundquist, J. 1995. "Ethnicity, Social-Class and Health - a Population-Based Study on the Influence of Social-Factors on Self-Reported Illness in 223 Latin-American Refugees, 333 Finnish and 126 South European Labor Migrants and 841 Swedish Controls." Social Science & Medicine 40:777-787.

  • Williams, DR. 1999. "Race, socioeconomic status, and health - The added effects of racism and discrimination." Pp. 173-188 in Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrial Nations, vol. 896, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Additional Readings:

  • Ryan, AM, Gee, GC, and Laflamme, DF. 2006. "The association between self-reported discrimination, physical health and blood pressure: Findings from African Americans, Black immigrants, and Latino immigrants in New Hampshire." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 17:116-132.


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