BACKGROUND Asylum seekers, refugees and persons without legal status have been reported to experience a range of difficulties when accessing public services and supports in the UK. While research has identified health care barriers to equitable access such as language difficulties, it has not considered the broader social contexts of marginalization experienced through the dynamics of 'othering...

For some years, the German public has been debating case of migrant workers receiving benefits for children living abroad, which scandalised as a “benefit tourism.” This points to failure recognise striking imbalance between output welfare state migrants and input it receives from domestic workers. In this article I discuss how is being rendered invisible or at least underappreciated by sexist,...

Zusammenfassung Othering beschreibt die Markierung von Menschen als „anders“ oder „nicht zugehörig“. Ausgehend den Konzepten des exclusionary und inclusionary diskutiert dieser Beitrag drei Ansätze zu i) Public Health, ii) Health iii) diversitätssensiblem Health. Die Implikationen der werden am Beispiel Umgangs mit COVID-19 Pandemie bei schutzsuchenden in Aufnahmeeinrichtungen Sammelunterkünfte...

We explored the experiences of uncertain fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood in 12 young women treated for hematological malignancy during their reproductive years. It is demonstrated how, through interpretations of the women's own words, these women lived and coped with a sense of "otherness" in relation to their peers. The concept of otherness is described and discussed in relation to releva...