Please read the article by James Dwyer, which discusses common arguments involving the provision of health care to undocumented immigrants. 

***NOTE: Make sure to select the PDF version, as the regular "full text" version requires you create a free account (the PDF version should launch without doing so). As you read, think about arguments that you hear today about this very issue and Dwyer's way of reframing the debate around different conceptions of scarcity and social membership.

Please read the article by Heide Castaneda and colleagues. As you read, think about how individual level factors are often focused on to the exclusion of social structural factors in understanding and addressing the health challenges faced by patients who are immigrants or refugees. How might some of the social factors nonetheless be useful in the clinical care of patients (i.e. in understanding their diseases, how well they might be able to manage them, etc.)?

In this session, after an update from the European Commissioner for Home Affairs about the recent regulations of the European Union related to immigration, well known experts in the field will present and discuss migrant and refugee health issues in Europe and beyond. (84 minutes)