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The volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range of finely-grained case studies to examine epidemic disease and its containment, chronic illness and mental breakdown and the health management of migrant populations in the modern world.

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Tables and Graphs Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World; Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland 1. Insanity and Immigration Restriction; Alison Bashford 2. Itineraries and Experiences of Insanity: Irish Migration and the Management of Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland and Sarah York 3. Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838-1900: The Cases of Trinidad and British Guiana; Letizia Gramaglia 4. The Colonial Travels and Travails of Smallpox Vaccine, c.1820-1840; Katherine Foxhall 5. Victim or Vector? Tubercular Irish Nurses in England 1930-1960; Anne MacLellan 6. Immigration, Ethnicity and ´Public´ Health Policy in Postcolonial Britain; Robert Bivins 7. Immigration and Body Politic: Vaccination Policy and Practices during Mass Immigration to Israel (1948-1956); Nadav Davidovitch 8. From the Cycle of Deprivation to Troubled Families: Ethnicity and the Underclass Concept; John Welshman Index

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Alison Bashford, University of Sydney, Australia Roberta Bivins, University of Warwick, UK Nadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD, public health physician Katherine Foxhall, King´s College London, UK Letizia Gramaglia, University of Warwick, UK Anne Mac Lellan, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland John Welshman, Lancaster University, UK

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