Public health and outsiders': British responses to refugees in the twentieth century. (360G-Wellcome-097727_Z_11_Z)

£179,171

This project uses public health policy towards refugees as a way into understanding the nature of health citizenship and belonging in twentieth century British society. The 1951 Refugee Convention implied a social contract between the receiving state and refugees over citizenship rights, including health citizenship. And yet experience has shown that through port-of-entry examinations, camps and the exclusion of asylum seekers from particular services, refugees have often been treated as outside the British community of health and subject to extraordinary measures. Public health policy has been enacted within two further contexts: the shifting geo-political landscapes of the Cold War, post-colonialist and post-Soviet eras, which created different waves of refugees; and the changing form and functions of the British state and welfare state which profoundly affected the influence and work of local health departments. Through using evidence from four case study groups - refugees from Naz ism in the 1930s; Displaced Persons relocated to Britain after 1945; Ugandan Asians in the 1970s and post-1991 refugees/asylum seekers the research will reconstruct public health policy towards refugees at different times and at different levels of the state, and reveal how public health was experienced by refugees themselves.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 179171
Applicant Surname Taylor
Approval Committee Medical History and Humanities Interview Committee
Award Date 2011-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2011/12
Grant Programme: Title Research Fellowship in H&SS
Internal ID 097727/Z/11/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Becky Taylor
Partnership Value 179171
Planned Dates: End Date 2015-08-31T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2012-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Greater London
Sponsor(s) Prof David Feldman