TY - JOUR
T1 - Medico-legal borders and the shaping of health services for Afghans in Iran : physical, social, bureaucratic, and public health conditions of care
AU - Bisaillon, Laura
AU - Gooshki, Ehsan Shamsi
AU - Briskman, Linda
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We report findings from an interdisciplinary scoping exercise carried out in Tehran and Qom, Iran, in August 2014. Our analysis is organised within the four themes of physical, social, bureaucratic, and public health conditions of care, and this work connects with and contributes to what is known about the social conditions of Afghans in Iran. Through this exploratory exercise, we aimed to generate new understandings about issues facing Afghans in healthcare settings in Iran from their perspectives and those of other actors in Iran. This project emerged from concerns about prejudicial treatment of Afghans in clinical settings. We argue and illustrate that an ethics of care approach provides a conceptually and contextually relevant way to develop understandings about and to transform contexts of care. We conclude by anticipating next steps in our research process by building on insights and knowledge produced through this scoping exercise and the tentative analysis that it proffered.
AB - We report findings from an interdisciplinary scoping exercise carried out in Tehran and Qom, Iran, in August 2014. Our analysis is organised within the four themes of physical, social, bureaucratic, and public health conditions of care, and this work connects with and contributes to what is known about the social conditions of Afghans in Iran. Through this exploratory exercise, we aimed to generate new understandings about issues facing Afghans in healthcare settings in Iran from their perspectives and those of other actors in Iran. This project emerged from concerns about prejudicial treatment of Afghans in clinical settings. We argue and illustrate that an ethics of care approach provides a conceptually and contextually relevant way to develop understandings about and to transform contexts of care. We conclude by anticipating next steps in our research process by building on insights and knowledge produced through this scoping exercise and the tentative analysis that it proffered.
KW - ethics
KW - Iran
KW - Afghans
KW - health services accessibility
KW - medical ethics
KW - racism
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:40194
U2 - 10.1504/IJMBS.2016.074637
DO - 10.1504/IJMBS.2016.074637
M3 - Article
SN - 1755-2419
VL - 2
SP - 40
EP - 58
JO - International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
JF - International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
IS - 1
ER -