Health, Safety and Well-being of Migrant Workers: New Hazards, New Workers

Francisco Diaz Bretones is Associate Professor at the University of Granada (Spain) and holds his Ph.D. in social psychology from the same university. Currently, he is Head of the Well-being for Individual, Society and Enterprise (WISE) research group at the University of Granada. Previously, he was Associate Professor at the University of Tamaulipas (Mexico). He has been Visiting Professor in several foreign universities (Princeton University, University of Nottingham, or University of Helsinki, among others). Some of his research interests are workers' emotions, and especially disadvantaged social groups such as immigrant workers. He has more than 50 articles published in high impact academic journals with more than 1,000 citations overall and 30 books and chapters. He has also participated in 12 international research projects with several European and Latin American universities, for example, Psychosocial Emergent Risks in SMEs funded by the European Commission, and Immigrant Entrepreneurship Strategies in Andalusia. Angeli Santos is Associate Professor in Applied Psychology at the Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham. She obtained her MSc and PhD degrees in in occupational health psychology and applied psychology, respectively, from the University of Nottingham, and has worked in both the UK and Malaysia campuses of the University of Nottingham. Currently, she is programme director for the MSc in work and organisational psychology and holds an adjunct senior research fellowship at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.

Chapter 1. New Hazards, New Workers: an Overview (Francisco D. Bretones).- Chapter 2. Migration of Health Professionals in Brazil and Latin American (Mario Roberto Dal Poz).- Chapter 3. Health and Wellbeing in Migrant Workers (Stavroula Leka).- Chapter 4. Toward a Life-course Perspective of Migrant Worker Health (Kaori Fujishiro).- Chapter 5. Parental Migration and the Health Effects on Children and their Care-Takers: Evidence from Sri Lanka (Vengadeshvaran J. Sarma).- Chapter 6. Responsible Management of Psychosocial Risks of Migrant Workers. The Case of Southern Europe (Jose M. Gonzalez).- Chapter 7. Risk Perception in Migrant Workers (Peter Chen).- Chapter 8. Challenging a Cycle of Neglect - Health and Safety and Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada and the European Union (Ewa Dabrowska-Miciula).- Chapter 9. Migration, Precarious Employment and Health (Joan Benach).- Chapter 10. Psychological Health on Migrant Workers (Luis E. Alvarado).- Chapter 11. Workplace Well-being of Chinese Immigrant Workers in Portugal (Zhiting Feng).- Chapter 12. Migrant Workers' Human Capital in the Workplace: Enhancing the role of Informal Learning (Amelia Manuti).