Health Care in Migrant Moscow

Author(s): Linda J. Cook
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 159
Pages: 9-14
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2014

Interviews and focus groups in Moscow and Dushanbe, Tajikistan, show that access to non-emergency health care is precarious for the bottom strata of Moscows labor force, unregistered Central Asian migrants. Medical insurance coverage for migrants who are registered and working legally has been curtailed by a recent national social insurance reform, marking a deterioration of their labor conditions. The increasing numbers of women migrants are particularly affected by limited access to health services. Overall, there is growing precariousness, fragmentation, and inequality in Eurasias globalized labor markets.

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