Original scientific paper
Migration and Health
Sonja Podgorelec
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author analyses the section of the research project “Yugoslav women in Berlin” concerned with health and health problems of migrant women, as well as with social factors that influence their health. After querying a population of 155 women, it was shown that the proportion with impaired health was quite high among them with respect to their age, and that their state of health progressively worsened as their sojourn abroad prolonged itself. Work conditions (high production quotas and great physical stress), the time they spend on housework and caring for children, their insecure position and life prospects – are some of the conditions that aggravate the state of health of women migrants. The order of frequency of illnesses effecting women in the study was indicative (illness of the “nerves”, of the locomotoric system, the heart and circulatory system) – since it corresponded to the order of frequency of illnesses for which, in recent years, invalid pensions have been approved (according to the records of the Commission for evaluating work competence and impairment of workers temporary abroad from Croatia).
Keywords
migration; health; women migrants; Berlin
Hrčak ID:
127750
URI
Publication date:
31.12.1990.
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