Lorena Núñez

Senior Researcher

Lorena Núñez is a Medical Anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society. With extensive experience in the fields of gender and development and of migration and health, she is currently working in the Migration, Displacement and Health project at ACMS. Her research focuses on the linkages between culture, illness and healing among migrant populations in both Latin America and Africa. She obtained her PhD from the University of Leiden in The Netherlands.

Publications

Nunez, L., Vearey J., & Drimie S. (2011).  Who cares? HIV-related sickness, urban-rural linkages, and the gendered role of care in return migration in South Africa. Gender and Development. 19(1), 105-114.
Nunez, L. (2011).  Necesidades de la mujer migrante y la oferta de atención en salud reproductiva. Discrepancias y distancias de una relación no resuelta. (Carolina Stefoni, Ed.).Mujeres inmigrantes en Chile ¿Mano de obra o trabajadoras con derechos? Colección Sociología, Personas, Organizaciones y Sociedad.
Vearey, J., & Nunez L. (2011).  Towards improving forced migrant access to health and psychosocial rights in urban South Africa – a focus on Johannesburg. 1-12.
Nunez, L. (2010).  Women and Migration in the Context of Globalisation: Opportunities and Challenges for Women’s Rights Protection. Buwa! A Journal on African Women's Experiences. 1, 85-87.
Vearey, J., Palmary I., Thomas L., & Nunez L. (2010).  Urban Health in Johannesburg: The Importance of Place in Understanding Intra-Urban Inequalities in a Context of Migration and HIV. Health & Place. 16(4), 694-702 .
Nunez, L. (2010).  Transnational Family Life among Peruvian Migrants in Chile: Multiple Commitments and the Role of Social Remittances. Journal of Comparative Family Studies. 41(2), 187-204.
Sabogal, E., & Nunez L. (2010).  Sin Papeles: Middle- and Working-Class Peruvians in Santiago and South Florida. (U. Berg, K. Paerregaard, A. Takenaka, Ed.).Latin American Perspectives, Peruvian Migration in a Global Context. 37(5), 88-105.
Vearey, J., & Nunez L. (2010).  Migration and Health in South Africa: A review of the current situation and recommendations for achieving the World Health Resolution on the Health of Migrants. 1-67.
Nunez, L. (2010).  Migrantes urbanos y los lenguajes del malestar. (Lorenzo Agar, Nicole Saffie, Ed.).Migraciones, Salud y Globalización: Entrelazando Miradas. 179-198.
Nunez, L. (2009).  Is it possible to eradicate poverty without attending to mental Health? Listening to migrants workers in Chile through their idioms of distress. Journal of Health Management. 11(3), 337-354 .
Palmary, I., & Nunez L. (2009).  The Orthodoxy of Gender Mainstreaming: Reflecting on Gender Mainstreaming as a Strategy for Accomplishing the Millennium Development Goals. Journal of Health Management. 11(2), 
Vearey, J., Nunez L., & Palmary I. (2009).  HIV, Migration and Urban Food Security: Exploring the Linkages. Renewal Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security South Africa Report. 1-264.
Palmary, I., & Nunez L. (2008).  Addressing Mobility-Induced Vulnerabity and Gaps in Integrated Response to HIV/AIDS in the Lake Victoria Basin Region. FMSP Research Report.
Nunez, L., & Holper D. (2005).  En el Perú Nadie se Muere de Hambre; Pérdida de Peso y Prácticas de Alimentación entre Trabajadoras Domésticas Peruanas en Chile. (U. Berg, K. Paerregaard, Ed.).Lima: El Quinto Suyo.
Nunez, L., & Stefoni C. (2004).  Migrantes Andinos en Chile: ¿transnacionales o sobrevivientes?. Anuario Flacso.