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Structural vulnerability: migration and health in social context Format Abstract Based on the authors’ work in Latin America and Africa, this article describes and applies the concept ‘structural vulnerability’ to the challenges of clinical care and healthcare advocacy for migrants. This concept helps consider how specific social, economic and political hierarchies and policies produce and pattern poor health in two case studies: one at the USA–Mexico border and another in Djibouti. Migrants’ and providers’ various entanglements within inequitable and sometimes violent global migration systems can produce shared structural vulnerabilities that then differentially affect health and other outcomes. In response, we argue providers require specialised training and support; professional associations, healthcare institutions, universities and humanitarian organisations should work to end the criminalisation of medical and humanitarian assistance to migrants; migrants should

United statesKatharine donatoLauren carruthJames quesadaCarlos martinezLahra smithLatin americaGlobal southஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில்க்யாத்ரிந் டொனாடோலாரன் கற்றுத்ஜேம்ஸ் க்வ்ய்ஸாடகார்லோஸ் மார்டினெஸ்லஹ்ரா ஸ்மித்லத்தீன் அமெரிக்காஉலகளாவிய தெற்கு