Spazi di cura trans – nazionali, pluralismo medico e percorsi di accesso ai servizi sanitari, fra immigrate filippine e ucraine

Abstract

This article, born of a wider research, aims to further study how the creation of “transnational health spaces” and the reliance on medical pluralism intertwine, in the case of Filipino and Ukrainian female migrants with difficulties in accessing health services and how such difficulties are overcome through several resources and networks. This work relies on the interviews carried out with the forty female migrants part of an investigation, employed an anthropological approach within two Italian cities differing in both their social and health-related policies, Pisa and Naples.

Keywords

• transnational health spaces, accessing medical services, medical pluralism, female immigration, migration networks