Moving target, moving parts: the multiple mobilities of the COVID-19 pandemic By Nicola Burns, Luca Follis, Karolina Follis and Janine Morley In Lupton, D. and Willis, K. eds., 2021. The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives. Routledge. After the initial few months
Workshop 3 Programme
Healthcare on the Move: Future Directions 23-24 September | Online | Programme Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, the call to ‘return to normal’ has been consistently articulated alongside demands to ‘build back fairer’. Meanwhile, ideas surrounding the protection of public and
Watch now: Keynote Lecture from Tullio Prestileo
‘Moving the Fence: Migrants, COVID and New Obstacles to Healthcare’ By Tullio Prestileo, with response from Jess Potter If you missed the keynote lecture from our second workshop on 17-18 June 2021, it is now available to watch again. Dr Tullio Prestileo
Workshop 3: Call for Participants
Healthcare on the Move: Future Directions Online Workshop 3 | 23-24 September 2021 Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, the call to ‘return to normal’ has been consistently articulated alongside demands to ‘build back fairer’. Ideas surrounding the protection of public and individual
Collaboration with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
We are thrilled to announce a new and exciting collaboration of the Doctors within Borders project with the poet and writer Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan who will join the discussions in our upcoming workshop and lend her creative voice to help spread the
Workshop 2 Programme
Paradoxes of Healthcare Entitlements in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Crisis Response and Hostile Environments 17 -18 June 2021 | Online | Programme | Watch Keynote Lecture This workshop (one of a series of three) explores the conceptual and methodological challenges of research on
Doctors within Borders Workshops 2 & 3 announced
Two upcoming workshops: 17-18 June & 23-24 September 2021 The Doctors within Borders project held its first workshop in January 2020. We asked how refugees, people with an unsettled immigration status and persons without a fixed address access healthcare. We wanted
Working Papers Collection released, finally
In a time before COVID, the Doctors within Borders network hosted a workshop, the first of three planned for 2020. In January 2020, social scientists, healthcare practitioners and activists travelled to Lancaster University to talk about the challenges faced by marginalised
The Covid Mobilities Collection | #covidmobilities
The Doctors within Borders team have compiled a list of resources, commentaries, campaigns and current affairs reporting that analyse and provide insight into the health context of migrants and other mobile communities during the coronavirus crisis, including issues of: borders
Covid-19 Update and Workshop Information
A Message from the Doctors within Borders Team The Doctors within Borders project is a research networking initiative, which was originally designed around opportunities for researchers, activists and practitioners to participate in a series of workshops. The first one took
Healthcare, Mobilities and National Healthcare Systems: DwB hosts first workshop
The Doctors within Borders project held its first workshop on Friday 10th January 2020 at Lancaster University. Entitled “Healthcare, Mobilities and National Healthcare Systems,” the event brought together an international group of social scientists, healthcare practitioners and activists to explore
First Doctors within Borders workshop takes place in Lancaster
The first workshop of the Doctors within Borders networking initiative on Mobile Populations in Contemporary Health Systems takes place at Lancaster University on Friday 10 January. We are excited to welcome a diverse range of researchers and practitioners, many of
Syrian (im)mobilities: Thinking through mobile population health
Syrians are scattered around the world. The United Nations estimates that 13.5 million people – more than half of Syria’s population – fled the civil war that started in 2011. Nine years later, the conflict is ongoing and President Bashar
Beyond ‘do no harm’: ethical research practice with migrants
5 Points to Consider When Starting a Project How can the physical and mental health of migrants be supported? This is the focus of a new international project, Doctors within Borders, which aims to explore grassroots advocacy and healthcare
Doctors within Borders Workshop 1 – Call for Participants
Healthcare, Mobilities and National Health Systems Workshop at Lancaster University, 10 January 2020 Modern medicine is a practice regulated by state authorities, where healthcare is channelled through national systems designed to treat people who live primarily settled lives. Contemporary healthcare