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Chapter 22 - Obstetric Care of Migrant Populations

from Section 3 - Fetal Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2021

By
Apostolos M. Mamopoulos ,
Ioannis Tsakiridis  and
Apostolos P. Athanasiadis
Edited by
Tahir Mahmood ,
Charles Savona Ventura ,
Ioannis Messinis  and
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Tahir Mahmood
Affiliation:
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
Charles Savona Ventura
Affiliation:
University of Malta, Malta
Ioannis Messinis
Affiliation:
University of Thessaly, Greece
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Affiliation:
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, UK
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Summary

Migration is defined as movement into a country with the intent to settle; refugees are a subgroup of people who are unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution due to their race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, and who have been granted refugee status by the host country. Each year, millions of women flee their homelands to escape local crises across the globe. War, genocide, persecution and natural disasters may be the major causes of migration, often without the option of returning back home. It is estimated that about 44 000 people are forcibly made to migrate every day [1]. Populations in developed countries comprise a considerable and growing proportion of migrants and descendants of migrants with a great proportion of births from foreign-born women. To date, European data on the health of migrants and their descendants are incomplete and show contradictory results.

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The EBCOG Postgraduate Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Obstetrics & Maternal-Fetal Medicine
 , pp. 183 - 189
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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