Mechanisms and attitudes in responsive healthcare for forced migrant communities: a qualitative study of transnational practice

Environments that enable good health and support forced migrants to live lives of meaning are vital components of responsive care. This requires flexibility and reflexivity in practice, intercultural exchange, humility, and a commitment to communication. A broader range of caring practitioners can, and should, through intentional and interconnected communities of care, contribute to the healthcare of forced migrants. Opening up healthcare systems to include other state actors such as teachers and settlement workers and a range of non-state actors that should include community leaders and peers and private players is a key step in this process. Future work should focus on the health and health service implications of immigration practices; the inclusion of peers in a range of healthcare roles; alliance-building across unlikely collaborators and the embedding of intercultural exchange in practice.