This book discusses the concepts of migration, race, and ethnicity and demonstrates how these can be applied in scientific research, policy making, health servi

In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good-or equally poor-health. There is wide variation, but on avera

The volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range of finely

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differenc

It was only a coincidence that the NHS and the Empire Windrush (a ship carrying 492 migrants from Britain's West Indian colonies) arrived together. On 22 June 1