Emigration and public health: the sanitary question in the control of Portuguese emigrants, 1890s-1950s

Human mobility represents a privileged field for analysing epidemic propagation, as well as identification and control practises at a world scale. Migrants are at the same time agents of disease dissemination and vulnerable persons highly exposed to epidemics in transit spaces such as city ports, sh...

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Main Author: Santos Yvette
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2022-01-01
Series:SHS Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/pdf/2022/06/shsconf_moc2022_04004.pdf