Abstract
We investigate international medical travel between Indonesia and Malaysia through the conceptual lens of sociality, transnational social space and therapeutic mobilities. Drawing upon narratives of local persons, medical traveller-patients, accompanying family members, hospital staff and medical travel facilitators, we illustrate how multifaceted linkages and processes generate and sustain the flow of patients across the border. In these narratives, we see multiple mobilities articulate and cross-cut in the building of transnational connections. This paper stretches the concept of transnational social space to apply to medical travel and contributes to the literature framing of international medical travel as a complex and multifaceted arena.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 87-102 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Mobilities |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Keywords
- cross-border migration
- Indonesian healthcare
- International medical travel
- Malaysian private hospitals
- transnational healthcare
- transnational social space
- transnationalism
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Sociality and transnational social space in the making of medical tourism : local actors and Indonesian patients in Malaysia. / Chee, Heng Leng; Whittaker, Andrea; Por, Heong Hong.
In: Mobilities, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2019, p. 87-102.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Sociality and transnational social space in the making of medical tourism
T2 - local actors and Indonesian patients in Malaysia
AU - Chee, Heng Leng
AU - Whittaker, Andrea
AU - Por, Heong Hong
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - We investigate international medical travel between Indonesia and Malaysia through the conceptual lens of sociality, transnational social space and therapeutic mobilities. Drawing upon narratives of local persons, medical traveller-patients, accompanying family members, hospital staff and medical travel facilitators, we illustrate how multifaceted linkages and processes generate and sustain the flow of patients across the border. In these narratives, we see multiple mobilities articulate and cross-cut in the building of transnational connections. This paper stretches the concept of transnational social space to apply to medical travel and contributes to the literature framing of international medical travel as a complex and multifaceted arena.
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KW - cross-border migration
KW - Indonesian healthcare
KW - International medical travel
KW - Malaysian private hospitals
KW - transnational healthcare
KW - transnational social space
KW - transnationalism
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U2 - 10.1080/17450101.2018.1521124
DO - 10.1080/17450101.2018.1521124
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VL - 14
SP - 87
EP - 102
JO - Mobilities
JF - Mobilities
SN - 1745-0101
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