Panel abstract:
From a public health perspective, immigrants in high-income countries represent a vulnerable - albeit heterogeneous - population, whose living and working conditions are often more precarious than those of the general population, and whose health status deteriorates with time spent in the host country (Roura 2017; Hargreaves et al. 2019). The over-representation of immigrants in frontline jobs and their excess morbidity/mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic (Warszawski et al. 2022; Omiyale et al. 2024) have further accentuated the need for studies on the relationship between work, health, and migration status.
This panel intends to bring together multidisciplinary contributions to address the complexity of the relationship between migration and occupational health in high-income countries from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. These contributions may include studies on the interplay between occupational health and migration status, the immigrants’ selection into employment where working conditions are more difficult (e.g., into the new forms of work organization such as gig and platform-based work), and more generally the intersections of living and working conditions, health, and migration.
Quantitative and qualitative contributions are welcome, including those using participatory and community-based approaches or other methods/strategies to engage hard-to-reach populations – undocumented immigrants and those living in precarious conditions among others.
Together, these contributions which analyze the immigrants’ participation in the job market as a social determinant of health will help gain a better understanding of the construction of migration-related inequalities in health and access to healthcare.
Please submit a 250-word abstract along with your names, affiliations, and contact details to Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah (