  Analytic perspectiveMigration and health: fact, fiction, art, politicsClarence C Tam1,2  1Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK 2Environmental and Enteric Diseases Department, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, UK  author email corresponding author email
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2006,
3:15doi:10.1186/1742-7622-3-15
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Abstract
The recent Immigration Bill debate in the United States Congress has again re-ignited the polemic regarding immigration policy. In this essay, I argue that disputes surrounding the legality of migrant workers highlight chronic, underlying problems related to factors that drive migration. The public health field, although concerned primarily with addressing the health needs of migrant populations, cannot remain disengaged from the wider debates about migration. The health needs of migrants, although in themselves important, are merely symptoms of deeper structural process that are intrinsically linked to equity and human rights, and simply focusing on health issues will be insufficient to address these societal pathologies. | 
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