After DwB: 2022 and beyond After the Doctors within Borders project concluded, the team behind it, Karolina Follis, Luca Follis, Nicola Burns and Janine Morley have continued to work on healthcare, borders and mobilities, developing publications, research bids and collaborations
Workshop 3: Keynote video and Illustrations out now
In September 2021, the Doctors within Borders initiative hosted its third and final workshop: “Healthcare on the Move: Future Directions” It was a chance to extend conversations and the network itself, to reflect upon past discussions and the future of
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan performs ‘The Vocabulary of Neglect’
At Workshop 2 ‘Paradoxes of Healthcare Entitlements in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Crisis Response and Hostile Environments‘ we were joined by poet and writer, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan. After listening to the discussions, Suhaiymah crafted a poem ‘The Vocabulary of Neglect’. It is an
Out now: Book chapter on health mobilities in the Covid-19 pandemic
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
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
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
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