Neurology in Migrants and Refugees

This book is the result of reflections and work of the Specialty group on neurology in migrants of the World Federation of Neurology. The volume provides a synthesis of migrants' health in relation to the sustainable development goals and the 2030 agenda, and an up-to-date overview on neurological diseases among migrants, refugees and ethnic minorities. The book is composed of both general chapters dealing with the history of migration, the relationship between climate change and migration flows, the migration and neurosciences research and the barriers to migrant's health. Other chapters deal with the migrants' particularities of the common neurological diseases such as cerebrovascular diseases, epilepsy, dementia, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, headache, functional and mental disorders. In addition, also neurological manifestation of COVID-19 in ethnic minorities and palliative care in migrants are discussed. Neurology in Migrants and Refugees will be useful to neurologists worldwide who can find appropriate knowledge for diagnosis and treatment when facing migrants with neurological disorders which are sometimes difficult to assess in the absence of clinical experience with the migrant population. It will also be very useful for international organizations, policymakers and non-governmental organizations working in the field of health and migration. This book will certainly find an indispensable place in neurological departments libraries and will constitute a basic textbook for teaching neurology taking into account ethnicity, culture and health inequalities in the care of neurological disorders.

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Mustapha El Alaoui-Faris is professor of Neurology and Neuropsychology at the Mohammed-V University and Director of the Alzheimer's Center of Rabat, Morocco. His mean clinical interests are Dementia, Clinical Neuropsychology, Stroke, Parkinson's disease and Multiple Sclerosis. He is the author of more than 400 articles on international journals as well as author of several book chapters. Prof. El Alaoui Faris is the founder and past president of the Moroccan Society of Neurology and the Moroccan Society of Neuropsychology and current president of the Moroccan Foundation Against Neurological Diseases and the Moroccan Alzheimers' Association. He was the president of the XXth World Congress of Neurology, held in Marrakech, 2011. He is also the founder and chair of the WFN Special Group on Neurology in Migrants and was member of the WHO board for the Revision of the International Classification of Diseases 10 (ICD 10). Prof. El Alaoui-Faris received in 2019, the World Federation of Neurology Medal for Service to International Neurology.

Antonio Federico is emeritus professor of Neurology at the University of Siena and past Director of the Unit of Clinical Neurology and Neurometabolic Diseases and of the Dept. Neurological and Behavioural Sciences. His main field of interest is related to neurometabolic, neurodegenerative and rare diseases. He is author of more than 600 articles as well as author of book chapters and editor of the book Late Onset Neurometabolic diseases, Federico, Suzuki and Baumann editors, Karger, 1991. Recently he published (2015) the Manuale di Neurologia Pratica" and "Neurologia and Assistenza infermieristica for Italian students. Prof. Federico was president of the Italian Society of Neurology, vice-Rector of the University of Siena, chairmen of the Scientific Committee of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), of the Neuromediterraneum Forum and co-chair of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) Specialist group of Neurology and Migrants. He is presently co-chair of EAN Task Force on Rare Neurologic Diseases, Chair of the WFN Specialist group on Rare Neurologic diseases, italian representative at EAN and WFN and Editor-in-Chief of Neurological Sciences (Springer Editor).

Wolfgang Grisold, Dr., Prof., FAAN, is a specialist for neurology and psychiatry. His special interests apart from general neurology are neuromuscular disease and neuro-oncology, palliative care, advocacy and education in neurology. He has a particular expertise in neuromuscular disease in regards to correlation of clinical findings, electrophysiology, neuropathology and imaging. He was involved in several international educational committees, and co-chairs education committee of the World Federation of Neurology. He organized several international congresses as the EANO congress in Vienna in 2006 and the ICNMD in Vienna 2018 and was the founding editor of the EANO neuro-oncology magazine, and is the past European co-editor of neuro-oncology practice. He is now co- editor of both Neurological Sciences and e -Neurological Sciences. At the local level he was instrumental to introduce the multidisciplinary subspecialty of palliative care with neurological participation in Austria. His main scientific topics are neurooncology and neuromuscular diseases, among others as education. He published 700 publications (250 Pubmed quoted) and edited or co-edited 14 books, one of them on Advocacy in Neurology. He is the secretary general of the World Federation of Neurology and involved in many international and global activities.

Inhalt
ForewordPreface
Part I. Introductory Testimonies1. The trauma of migration. Considerations from a first-line doctor in Lampedusa2. Migration and Poetry
Part II. Historical, Geography, and Health Problems of Migration3. History of Migration4. Migration across History5. History of North African Migration to Europe: the Case of Morocco6. Migration, Environment and Climate Change7. Child Migration and School Achievement8. Barriers to Health for Migrants and Refugees9. Contributions of Migration and Refugees Research to Neurology and Neurosciences10. How can Host Countries Provide Neurological Care to Migrants and Refugees11. Neurological and Mental Health Problems among Refugees from South Asia
Part III. Neurological Disorders in Migrants12. Neuroinfectious Diseases in Migrants and Refugees13. The Devastating Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Ethnic Minorities, Migrants, and Refugees14. Cerebrovascular Risk Factors in Migrants and Refugees15. Stroke in Migrants16. Multiple Sclerosis in Migrants17. Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders in Migrants18. Neurological Manifestations of Behçet Diseases related to Migration and Ethnicity19. Headache in Migrants and Refugees20. Epilepsy in Migrants21. Movement Disorders in Migrants22. Cross-cultural Cognitive Examination in Aging Migrants23. Dementia in Aging Migrants24. Anxiety and Depression in Migrants25. Somatization and Functional Disorders in Migrants and Refugees26. Palliative Care in Migrants
Part IV. Future Developments27. Migrants' Health, the Sustainable Development Goals and the COVID-19 pandemic