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Title: Labor migration and health in Romania


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Labor migration and health in Romania
Razvan M. Chereches, MD PhD Alexandru Coman, MD
  • The Effects of International Labor Migration on
    Political Learning Workshop, Cluj-Napoca,
    Romania, June 6-7 2008

2
Labor migration and health in Romania
  • Children and spouses left behind by migrants
  • Only few studies
  • Health status and problems

3
Labor migration and health in Romania
  • Psychosocial issues
  • Separation of spouses marital problems
    divorce
  • Reunification men sexually and emotionally
    distant (de Jong, 1994)
  • New relations / idealization beyond reality
  • Most affected immigrant children or children
    left behind

4
Labor migration and health in Romania
  • Psychosocial issues
  • Women left behind - stress associated with the
    welfare of the absent husband, acquisition of new
    responsibilities and obligations and family
    disintegration (De Snyder 1993)
  • Migration of spouses, coupled with non-remittance
    of financial support is associated with marked
    health effects in the family left behind women
    are more vulnerable than men (Burazeri 2007)
  • The familial reorganization influences timely
    health care-seeking behavior of female partners
    of migrants (Caballero 2008)

5
Labor migration and health in Romania
  • Psychosomatic problems
  • Peptic ulcer (Muynck 1997) or stress-related
    ulcer (Huismann et al. 1997)
  • Chronic tension headaches (van Wieringen et al.
    1986)
  • Chronic anxiety, sleep disorders, frequent
    headaches (Janson et al. 1997)
  • Hypochondria and paranoia (Gaspar Siles 1997)
  • Cultural differences in perceiving health, body
    and causes of disease

6
Labor migration and health in Romania
  • Psychosomatic problems
  • Alcohol and drug abuse
  • Fear of sexually transmitted infections among
    women with male migrant partners (Hughes 2006)
  • Schizophrenia
  • Depression suicides (de Jong 1994)

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Labor migration and health in Romania
  • Systematic literature review
  • Miclutia, Ioana, et al. "Migration, mental health
    and costs consequences in Romania." - The journal
    of mental health policy and economics 10.1
    (2007)43-50
  • Migration effects children left behind. Risks
    and solutions Soros Foundation Romania

8
Labor migration and health in Romania
  • Media coverage
  • 8 years old hangs himself after his mother went
    to Spain to work - Wednesday, February 27, 2007
  • 17 years old throws himself from the seventh
    floor both parents working abroad - Wednesday,
    April 9, 2007
  • 12 year old boy kills himself after finding out
    that his mother will return to work in Italy -
    Wednesday, O ctober 1, 2007
  • Missing his parents,16 years old shooting
    champion kills himself Thurday, December 20,
    2007

9
Labor migration and health in Romania
  • Interdisciplinary approach
  • Political sciences
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Public health
  • Medicine
  • Communication sciences
  • Social welfare

10
Labor migration and health in Romania
  • Research
  • Psychological disorders in children left behind
    by migrant parents
  • Psychosomatic problems of spouses and children of
    migrants
  • Prevalence of alcohol, cigarettes and drug abuse
    comparison between children of migrants and
    non-migrants
  • Probability to go to high school and university
    of children left behind by migrant parents
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