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The present article is part of the project "Health as a fundamental right", started in 2011 and coordinated by Laboratorio dei Diritti Fondamentali (FDF). The research project was developed in two phases, the first was based on a... more
The present article is part of the project "Health as a fundamental right", started in 2011 and coordinated by Laboratorio dei Diritti Fondamentali (FDF). The research project was developed in two phases, the first was based on a juridical approach, while the second was carried on by and a group of anthropologists and sociologists, in order to reconstruct, givevoice and analyse the experiences of migrants in their relationship with the health services in Turin (Italy). Written from an anthropological perspective, the present article explores the esxperieces of migrant mothers in Turin.
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Chapter 6. Health as a fundamental right. Experiences of migrants in Turin.
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Edited by Il Mulino, Rome
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2014, Edizioni Nova Logos, Roma.
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Publicado en: Revista “Studi Tanatologici”, Nro. 6, 2013, pp. 150-174, Torino (Italia).
Traducción del Italiano: Miriam Montoya Restrepo
Traducción del Italiano: Miriam Montoya Restrepo
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Pubblicato in “Studi Tanatologici”, 2013, n. 6, pp. 150 – 174.
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The report published here is the result of the second phase of a project begun at the Laboratorio dei Diritti Fondamentali (FDF) in 2011. Research carried out by Irene Biglino and Anthony Olmo produced the volume entitled Health as a... more
The report published here is the result of the second phase of a project begun at the Laboratorio dei Diritti Fondamentali (FDF) in 2011. Research carried out by Irene Biglino and Anthony Olmo produced the volume entitled Health as a Fundamental Right: A study on migration and healthcare in Turin published in 2014 in this series. This second volume picks up the conceptual framework offered by the legislative content
of the right to health, thus emphasising the unitary meaning that we intended to give to the research. In the first phase, the work carried out by the jurist researchers, supported by specialists in other disciplines, was
concentrated on the offer of health services and treatments available to migrants. In this second phase, entrusted mainly to anthropologists and sociologists, a complementary perspective was adopted, based on the
reconstruction of the experiences of the migrants in their relationship with the health services. Their voices and their narrations have been given ample space. The intention that drives this second research project, in its relation to the first, was to overcome the usual dimension of description of the normative and the institutional reality, examining their efficacy and adequacy by reconstructing the effective experience of the migrants.
The research phase, of which this document is the result, was conducted using ethnographic methods; it brought to light significant convergences with the previous study, but it also offers a considerable enrichment of the understanding that LDF offers to the public health authorities, the social services and those responsible for drawing up and enacting public policy. The results attained and made public through the two research reports can also be useful for those who work in the vast world of private social welfare, traditionally a rich and compelling element situation in Torino.
The link between social research and the more specifically legal area of human rights is the distinguishing mark of the activities of the Laboratorio dei Diritti Fondamentali which, following the indications of the European Court for Human Rights, deals with “concrete and effective rights and not
theoretical and illusory ones”.
Vladimiro Zagrebelsky, Foreword
of the right to health, thus emphasising the unitary meaning that we intended to give to the research. In the first phase, the work carried out by the jurist researchers, supported by specialists in other disciplines, was
concentrated on the offer of health services and treatments available to migrants. In this second phase, entrusted mainly to anthropologists and sociologists, a complementary perspective was adopted, based on the
reconstruction of the experiences of the migrants in their relationship with the health services. Their voices and their narrations have been given ample space. The intention that drives this second research project, in its relation to the first, was to overcome the usual dimension of description of the normative and the institutional reality, examining their efficacy and adequacy by reconstructing the effective experience of the migrants.
The research phase, of which this document is the result, was conducted using ethnographic methods; it brought to light significant convergences with the previous study, but it also offers a considerable enrichment of the understanding that LDF offers to the public health authorities, the social services and those responsible for drawing up and enacting public policy. The results attained and made public through the two research reports can also be useful for those who work in the vast world of private social welfare, traditionally a rich and compelling element situation in Torino.
The link between social research and the more specifically legal area of human rights is the distinguishing mark of the activities of the Laboratorio dei Diritti Fondamentali which, following the indications of the European Court for Human Rights, deals with “concrete and effective rights and not
theoretical and illusory ones”.
Vladimiro Zagrebelsky, Foreword