Vivir con Chagas en Madrid: estructuras temporales de la vivencia de un grupo de pacientes bolivianos con el diagnóstico y la atención médica a la enfermedad de Chagas en un hospital metropolitano español

How can a chronic disease determine the life of a group of people diagnosed as seropositive away from their home country? And how do we account for that lived experience. Some diseases contemplated a few decades ago as strictly rural or of poor countries, are an urban reality now and are part of the epidemiological setting in wealthy developed countries. That is the case of Chagas disease in Spain. A disease linked for a long time to rural poverty, until migratory movements occurred nationwide from the country side to the city, and recently with international migration have turned pathology into a global public health issue. Chagas disease is a chronic parasitic infection, endemic in all Latin America and can be transmitted by triatomine or “kissing bug” (Triatoma Infestans), which lives and reproduces in straw houses of rural regions. According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO, 2006), the disease affects approximately eight million people. It is recognized by the WHO as a “neglected tropical disease”...

Migrantes centroamericanos en tránsito por México: trayectorias, redes y riesgos

The main interest of this research project focuses on transit migration, one element of the more general international migration process, where undocumented migrants find themselves in a condition of irregularity and have to face a migratory route under conditions of severe vulnerability. The main question guiding this research is: How to study and define the Transit Migration phenomenon from its specific context, considering its conditions and consequences? This implies also to respond three more questions: How do migrants perceive their irregular transit through Mexico? What are the networks and social links that articulate the trajectories of irregular Transit Migration through Mexico? and what is the meaning of these networks and links from the perspective of those individuals undergoing irregular Transit Migration processes?...