ABSTRACT
This chapter draws health geographers' attention to the increasingly diverse transnational flows of caregivers and care seekers as well as the complex networks that they and their movements constitute and in which they get enfolded. It highlights contributions by scholars working at the crossroads of migration studies, transnational studies, health and social geography and anthropology, and social gerontology. Transnational health- and long-term care provision involves many people: from skilled health workers (SHWs) temporarily deployed by national governments engaging in health diplomacy and volunteers with not-for-profit organizations in countries in humanitarian emergencies. Spurred by perceived medical-care deficits in their countries of residence, more and more people are engaging in temporary and circular movements abroad for the satisfaction of their medical needs. The development of a medical-tourism industry, in turn, significantly impacts the general regulation of health care.
