1. The document discusses an embodied approach to understanding migrant health through the lens of work, worry, and weariness experienced by migrants. 2. It highlights how migrants often experience downward social mobility and precarious employment that impacts their health. Migrants also experience worry through family separation and caregiving responsibilities. 3. Over time, the cumulative effects of stress can manifest physically through weariness, somatic expressions of distress, and chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure. 4. An embodied approach considers how social, economic, and political factors get under the skin and impact health, while also recognizing migrants' resilience through social support networks.

1. Engendering Migrant Health: an embodied approach Dr. Denise L. Spitzer Canada Research Chair in Gender, Migration and Health Institute of Women’s Studies & Institute of Population Health University of Ottawa CANADA Presentation to “ Migrants and the Right to Health” Birbeck College, University of London London, UK May 27-28, 2010

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