Ser inmigrante no es una enfermedad. Inmigración, condiciones de vida y de trabajo. El proceso de salud/enfermedad/atención de los inmigrantes senegaleses en Barcelona.

Identifier:  TDX:1470

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1470

Authors:  Goldberg, Alejandro

Abstract:
The main object of the following research is to make a contribution to the knowledge of a certain process: that of the health/illness/care; of a specific social group: Senegal migrant's in Barcelona (Spain).Migration is asumed to be a complex process, where some social control agents and state institutions could change, a socio historical human phenomenon into a political, ideological, moral and religious 'problem'.The study referes to one particular case, analized through the theory and methodolgy of Medical Anthropology. One of the most important problems to solve is the relationship between health/illness and life and working conditions of migrant people in the Spanish society.In this sense, labour health is considerated a social relationship, from the moment in which life conditions and the working process determine health problems, illnesses and deseases in morbility rates of inmigrant workers.Among diferent Senegal migrant's life stories, it's possible to describe and explain the therapeutic itinerarys they have followed, in order to cure the deseases suffered -in each case- during some of their migrant itinerary periods.At the same time, the knowledgement and practices they have from their own culture, with a specifical health care system, are analyzed. After it's description, the research goes deep inside the relationship between the traditional African medicine and biomedicine, the hegemonic medical model in Spanish society. At least, this model has to do with the mercantilization of health, and with the relative possibilities of access to health care for migrant people in Barcelona.The research also treates the main questions around doctor-inmigrant patient relationships (DIPR) in the sociosanitary context of Barcelona. In that sense, it's possible to resume, al least, three kind of big problems: 1) the problem of misinformation and unknowledgement; 2) the problem of comunication and language; 3) the problem of pharmacologic treatment and it's administration.