Collective loneliness

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loneliness	depopulation demographics Japan
A family of puppets collects wood in   the Japanese village of Ichinono.  Philip Fong / AFP - Getty Images	'Stop the boats' 'global trends'

My source: Sam Freedman. The truth about migrant workers: demonised but in demand, and few of us can live without them. The Observer, 03.08.25. pp.12-13.

https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/sam-freedman-demonising-migrants-wont-fill-jobs-or-boost-falling-populations

Image and context:

'Outnumbered by puppets': Depopulated village in Japan crafts dolls for sense of life

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/outnumbered-puppets-depopulated-village-japan-crafts-dolls-sense-life-rcna177216

Immigration - in Hodges' model

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You - have seen nothing yet ...?

"One of the key ideas behind Brexit was to 'take back control' of immigration. Back in 2010, David Cameron pledged to bring net migration to under 100,000 a year, but the promise was never met. ... However, in the post-Brexit years, immigration has soared to unprecedented levels. Net immigration, which hovered around 200,000 in pre-Brexit years skyrocketed to an all-time high of 745,000 in 2022." p.10.

We - have seen nothing yet ...?

How Migration Really Works

Hass, H. de., The Necessity of Immigration, BIG ISSUE, 4 December 2023. Issue 1593, pp.10-11.

Paper: c/o Rabiah-Mohammed et al. - Syrian Refugees’ Experiences of Housing Stability during the COVID-19 Pandemic

 

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Community - Group -  GLOBAL REFUGEES 

COVID-19 impact 'Just' mental health, stress, trauma, vulnerability lived experience stability identity PERSON-HOOD PSYCHE- PSYCHIATRY Spiritual - Beliefs - Hope - Sanctuary QUALITATIVE	COVID-19 impact housing stock: space/rooms/access stability 'just' [ in time ] - repeated displacement place, space, time, events, control systems GEO- Online 'life' education diet, food, cost QUANTITATIVE
SUBJECTIVE COVID-19 impact family size 'Just' (new) culture, language, customs Critical Social Theory social inequities, race, status, class... shared realities, narratives, interpretative discrimination, stigma, social isolation social justice, stability community, neighbourhoods family support, safety belonging SOCIO-	OBJECTIVE COVID-19 impact 'Just' policy housing markets government-assisted refugees power - [no] choice [beyond my control] Syrian refugees - forced migration housing instability low-income, affordability employment STATE-HOOD 'Re-settlement' - across this model? precarity -ECONOMIC

Fawziah Rabiah-Mohammed et al. (2022) Syrian Refugees’ Experiences of the Pandemic in Canada: Barriers to Integration and Just Solutions. Studies in Social Justice, 16,1, pp.9-32.

 

My source:
https://twitter.com/westernuNursing/status/1487161839922331651

Book: The Ungrateful Refugee

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listen to me "Why do we  listen to refugees in one way ...	The Ungrateful Refugee
	... and  Harvard Business School  students in another?" listen to us

"Anyone with a boss knows the basics: lock eyes, shake hands firmly, under-promise, over-deliver, repeat. At HBS, we picked up other ways to affect the need-potential calculus: when pitching something, dismantle scepticism by arguing against yourself. If a narrative lacks complexity, put it into an intellectually satisfying framework. And so on.
The most important signal is this: you don't need them - they need you. Your value lies in the vastness of your potential, walk into every room potential first." p.24.

My source:
Nayeri, D. (2020) How to be believed, FT Weekend, Magazine, 7-8 March, pp.24-27.

Book: "Good Economics for Hard Times"

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	Good Economics for Hard Times Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems Abhijit V. Banerjee Esther Duflo

Hodges' model provides interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary bridges across often disparate fields of knowledge and specialties (epistemologies). In this instance consider SOCIO-economics, the consumerism of supply and demand. The influence of this in the economics of health care and the environment. The impact of relentless growth when values are knotted with value and commodified.

Even the book's cover points to the preoccupation of economics with mechanics (process!?). The view of economies as machines, which this book and the work of the authors and others now seeks to challenge and change.


Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo (2019) Good Economics for Hard Times, Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems, Allen Lane, ISBN: 9780241306895

My source:
Ed Conway. Fighting the fake news with hard evidence, The Times, Saturday Review. December 14, 2019, p.16.

RCGP’s 6th Health & Justice Summit: Safety through Continuity

Perhaps I will see you in Liverpool, UK later this week? 
I will be taking notes and look forward to reporting here.

A 2-day summit organised by the RCGP Secure Environments Group in partnership with, Broadmoor, Ashworth, and Rampton high secure hospitals, Spectrum, Care UK, NHS England, Martindale Pharma, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, HMP Berwyn, West London NHS Trust, Mersey Care NHS Trust.

Following on from our successful event in Glasgow in 2017, we are now focusing on ‘Continuity of Care – safety through continuity’ as this year’s theme. We recognise the need to embolden the links between primary and secondary care for people resident in secure settings and are looking to showcase examples of good practice on how we can improve on care transition to the community.

The first day will broadly address physical health in secure mental health environments, and the second day will address the health needs of people in other custodial environments such as prisons, immigration removal centres and YOI’s.

If you are registered as a delegate for the event, please register which workshop you would like to attend via the link below:

www.convenzis.co.uk/6th-health-justice-summit-safety-through-continuity-registration/

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n.b. There are two papers listed in the bibliography (please see the sidebar) that show how h2cm is applicable to this specialist field.

Revisiting disciplinary-bridges: c/o Geopsychiatry*

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Psychiatry ' mental space' Post Traumatic Stress Disorder psychological violence psycho-	'inner - outer space' Geo-graphy physical violence 'fight or flight' -somatic -physical -physico
-social social violence Stress - intergenerational transmission vulnerable groups - women, children and males 'social space'	-political refugees  conflict  migration POLITICS The consequences of occupying this  'space'  (or not) are Legion political violence: slavery - war crimes

Thanks to GeoPsychiatry on twitter

 * 'Where' do we find - locate peace?

'geography' on W2tQ

and 'psychogeography'

Guidelines: Health Literacy & Immigration c/o National Academy of Sciences

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Building the Case for Health Literacy

The Financial Case "The health literacy field has a long history of forecasting the potential cost savings of addressing health literacy from a societal standpoint. An early systematic review reported a range of an additional 3–5 percent in total health costs attributable to limited health literacy for the health care system and a range of $143–$7,798 of additional expenditures for individual patients with low/limited health literacy compared to those with adequate health literacy (Eichler et al., 2009)." p.106.

"Immigration can thus be both a consequence of social determinants and a social determinant in its own right, said Castañeda. Understanding this relationship may require going beyond the hold of individualism and behaviorism in scientific studies and interventions and instead tackling a wider sphere of upstream structural factors that affect health, including living and working conditions; income inequalities and poverty; access to care; immigration policies and enforcement practices; and gender, race, and ethnic hierarchies. This approach draws insights from political economy, critical race theory, structural violence, structural vulnerability, and intersectionality, but it tries to avoid strict delineations of variables upon operationalization. “The more we fix and make permanent the specific factors in our definitions, the more likely we are to lose the big picture and the radical reframing that needs to be done,” she explained." p.21. "Uchendu recalled the “double battle” that some groups have to undertake because they are immigrants while also dealing with another issue. “In health equity, we talk about the intersection of vulnerabilities,” she explained. For example, immigrants can have mental health disabilities or be dealing with other issues. “Again, it comes back to that connection about the holistic individual,” she noted." p.40.

Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health

National Academy of Sciences

Building the Case for Health Literacy: Proceedings of a Workshop

Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health: Proceedings of a Workshop

 

The Socio-Politics of Migration...?

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Julian Simpson (2018) Migrant architects of the NHS - South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s). University of Manchester Press.

Alex Matthews-King. The Independent, Jeremy Hunt backs special visa for foreign people coming to work for NHS. 9 May, 2018.

My source (book): Noted in Blackwells, Manchester, £25 from £75.

Film: Human Flow

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h  u m   a      n	f l            o   w

Human Flow - Film

Refugees: one word or two?

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	Now here
	Nowhere

'Welcome'
Origin
Old English wilcuma ‘a person whose coming is pleasing’, wilcumian (verb), from wil- ‘desire, pleasure’ + cuman ‘come’. The first element was later changed to wel- ‘well’, influenced by Old French bien venu or Old Norse velkominn.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/welcome

Sites of Special Scientific Interest - a national concern?

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	"Sites of Special Scientific Interest"
	"A place of National Concern"