Ingrid Palmary

Examining the ways in which structural violence, austerity, and health governance shape migrant exclusion in public healthcare in South Africa

Abstract Migration is a critical social determinant of health, yet South Africa’s (SA) governance frameworks remain poorly equipped to address the structural violence faced by international migrants and resulting deep and intersecting inequities in health. Despite constitutional...

Care for Young Migrants in Gauteng: Challenging Normative Assumptions of Family and Institutional Care

South Africa is host to a significant number of young migrants who are in institutional care. This study aimed to understand how migrant youth access care, who provides it and their views about the quality of care they receive, given the precarity of urban life in South African c...