TY - JOUR T1 - Introduction: migration and health in social context JF - BMJ Global Health JO - BMJ Global Health DO - 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005261 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 1 SP - e005261 AU - Emily Mendenhall AU - Seth M Holmes A2 - , Y1 - 2021/04/01 UR - http://gh.bmj.com/content/6/Suppl_1/e005261.abstract N2 - While many argue that health is a universal human right,1 global health equity has proven difficult to achieve.2 The social determination of health systematically structures which people are made more or less vulnerable to sickness and disease.3 Simultaneously, health professionals and health systems have discretion in terms of how and whether they treat people, and this discretion may compound or ameliorate health inequities. Such discretion exists in the midst of unequal power relations between patients and health professionals that can be immense in certain contexts.The collection of Analysis articles, “Migration and Health in Social Context”, lays bare the ways in which social, political and economic structural factors impede or facilitate health among the most vulnerable migrants seeking care from clinical settings globally. The three articles consider clinical cases from around the world to define the social science concepts of structural vulnerability, deservingness and flourishing as they illuminate the care of transnational migrants who are unauthorised or undocumented in states that systematically marginalise such care-seekers due to increasingly anti-immigrant, xenophobic, racist or nationalist sentiments. We recognise that, for some immigrants, movement itself can enhance health outcomes; however, for others, who are the focus of … ER -