Transnational healthcare practices of Romanian migrants in Ireland: Inequalities of access and the privatisation of healthcare services in Europe

Sabina Stan

Social Science & Medicine, 2015, vol. 124, issue C, 346-355

Abstract: This article deals with the transnational healthcare practices of Central and Eastern European migrants in Europe, taking the case of Romanian migrants in Ireland. It explores the implications of migrants' transnational healthcare practices for the transformation of citizenship in Europe, more particularly in terms of access to free public healthcare. The article places these practices in the larger perspective of global care chains, seen as including transnational flows of healthcare seekers and healthcare workers that link distant healthcare systems in an emerging European healthcare assemblage.

Keywords: Transnational healthcare; East–West migration; Healthcare privatisation; Social inequalities; Uneven development; Romania; Ireland; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.04.013

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