From medical tourism to regionalism from the bottom up: emerging transnational spaces of care between Libya and Tunisia
Contenu
- Titre
- From medical tourism to regionalism from the bottom up: emerging transnational spaces of care between Libya and Tunisia
- Créateur
- Rouland, Betty Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Jarraya, Mounir Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Date
- 2020
- Dans
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Résumé
- This paper analyses the emergence of transnational care through the case study of Libyan patients seeking care in the Tunisian city of Sfax as a result of changes triggered by the 2011 Arab uprisings. Deconstructing categories of ‘medical tourist’ and ‘medical traveller’, we examine how the evolving geopolitical context produced specific migratory profiles (diasporic, traveller, cross-border, war-wounded and transnational patients) and spaces (cross-border, (intra)regional and transnational spaces of care) between Libya and Tunisia. Given a lack of data on the topic in North Africa, we developed a study on health mobilities and circulations from a South-South perspective. Based on a survey amongst Libyan patients (n = 205) in four private clinics and nine semi-structured interviews with health professionals in Sfax, we identified, how four key geopolitical periods shaped medical travel to this city: (1) initial diasporic exchanges facilitated by bilateral agreements; (2) an emerging medical tourism industry within private health services arising from the UN embargo on Libya; (3) the 2011 political crisis and arrival of war-wounded; and (4) therapeutic circulations and emerging transnational spaces of care resulting from the context of war.
- Langue
- eng
- volume
- 46
- numéro
- 20
- pages
- 4248-4263
- Titre abrégé
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
- From medical tourism to regionalism from the bottom up
- doi
- 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1597475
- issn
- 1369-183X, 1469-9451
Rouland, Betty et Jarraya, Mounir, “From medical tourism to regionalism from the bottom up: emerging transnational spaces of care between Libya and Tunisia”, 2020, bibliographie, consulté le 8 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/6150
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