Transnational Mobility and Global Health

"Globalization is and always has been about movement: of people, ideas, technologies, and goods. Koehn’s book provides an important and innovative analysis of these movements and their impacts on health, focusing throughout on inequalities and the complex, interconnected drivers of mobility. Koehn engages in an impressive analysis of diverse health and migration themes, including medical tourism, refugee experiences, the challenges of providing care to migrant communities, nativism and pandemic fears, climate change, and the challenges of this new and intensifying phenomenon to global governance. This is a must read for students and scholars of globalization and health." — Craig Janes, Professor and Director, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Canada

"This book is a masterpiece in articulating trans-boundary mobility and global health. The book presents and analyzes compelling and timely global health cases involving cross-country travelers, infectious and chronic disease risk, migration, and refugee issues. A must read for researchers and practitioners in the development field." — Rajib Shaw, Professor, Keio University, Japan and Chair, UN Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for disaster risk reduction

From the forewords:

"Many books with global health in their title deal exclusively with health challenges in developing countries. This book though goes to the heart of what global health is about: the transborder flows of health determinants, ideas, people, capital, goods and services." — Ilona Kickbusch, Director, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

"Peter Koehn has put together a masterful examination of the interconnections between migration and health among people moving for different reasons, through different channels, and in different economic and regional contexts. What sets this book apart and makes it so important are the ways in which it brings the disparate issues (including sustainable development and climate change) together into a holistic analysis of the nexus between migration and health. This book holds great potential to educate researchers and policymakers alike on the issues and offers cogent recommendations for moving forward in finding solutions for clear and growing problems while seizing opportunities that migration can present in building healthier societies." — Susan Martin, Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita of International Migration, Georgetown University, USA

"In Transnational Mobility and Global Health, Peter Koehn expertly discusses the global challenges that arise from increasing migration. The precarity faced by migrants is a failure of politics and leadership. Koehn rightly zeroes in on the need for a robust trans-national response to migrant-health needs. If the drivers of insecurity and migration are operating at a global scale, then any solution that hopes to succeed must also operate at that scale. Policy proposals put forward by this book must be considered and developed further." — Unni Karunakara, Professor of Public Health, Yale University, USA and International President (2010-2013), Médecins Sans Frontières

"Peter Koehn’s sweeping overview is a useful guide to the contemporary issues around health and mobility that transcends the impulse to focus on the latest trend inmigration studies, and instead provides a necessary survey some of the major global health challenges of our time and speculates about those of our future." - Emma Bider, Nordic Journal of Migration Research