Care Work and Medical Travel

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros is senior research fellow in the Department of Targeted Intervention at University College London.

• Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move: An IntroductionChapter 1: Caring in Diaspora: Hmong Americans Cares from Here and ThereChapter 2: Informal Caregiving in a Transnational Context: The Case of Canadian International Retirement Migrants in the United StatesChapter 3: Care, Choice, and Cure: Exploring the Logics of Mobility of Patients with Breast Chapter 4: Providing High Quality Care: What Cross-Border Medical Travel Can Teach UsChapter 5: ‘Caring for’ and ‘Caring about’ International Patients in Delhi: Medical Travel Facilitation between Strategy and SympathyChapter 6: Giving and Receiving Help across the Border: Transnational Health Practices of Migrants in FinlandChapter 7: The Dual Role of the Facilitator as Emotional Support and Reproductive Travel Broker in Cross-Border Reproductive Travel from Developing Countries: Psychological and Ethical Perspectives and a Call for Separation of ServicesChapter 8: Complexity and Contradiction: Intimacy, Testimony, and Care in H

This volume is a groundbreaking addition to the scholarship on caring and care work in the context of medical travel. Offering compelling contributions from across the globe, this collection provides exciting new insights on mobility and the caring roles of a wide range of actors. It is an essential and powerful read.