Meghann Ormond is Associate Professor in Cultural Geography at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands. She's deeply invested in and concerned with how differently-mobile people's roots, rights and vulnerabilities are recognised and included in the places they visit and in which they live. Her research focuses mainly on how shifting visions and practices of citizenship and belonging transform transnational mobility, heritage, health and care relationships and practices.
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 641
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4056-9619
LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghannormond/
Researcher ID K-7160-2012
Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Meghann_Ormond

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Wageningen University

    University, Wageningen, Netherlands
    Associate Professor

  • Wageningen University & Research

    University, Wageningen, Netherlands
    Associate Professor

  • Wageningen University & Research

    University, Wageningen, Netherlands

Research

Unsettled: On Learning to Honor Powerful Strangers in an "Immigrant World"

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2023
Journal Name CrossCurrents
1 Journal Article

Holding space for climate justice? Urgency and ‘Regenerative Cultures’ in Extinction Rebellion Netherlands

Authors Tom Rowe, Meghann Ormond
Year 2023
Journal Name Geoforum
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2 Journal Article

Eight ways universities can make career assessment more equitable

Authors Sylvia Brugman, Meghann Ormond, Janneke Pieters, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Nature
3 Journal Article

Beyond multicultural ‘tolerance’: guided tours and guidebooks as transformative tools for civic learning

Authors Meghann Ormond, Francesco Vietti
Year 2022
Book Title Peace Through Tourism
4 Book Chapter

Beyond multicultural 'tolerance': guided tours and guidebooks as transformative tools for civic learning

Authors Meghann Ormond, Francesco Vietti
Year 2021
Journal Name JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
Citations (WoS) 9
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6 Journal Article

Transnational medical travel: patient mobility, shifting health system entitlements and attachments

Authors Meghann Ormond, Neil Lunt
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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7 Journal Article

International Medical Travel or Medical Tourism

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2020
Book Title International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
8 Book Chapter

5. The Private Healthcare Sector in Johor: Trends and Prospects

Year 2020
Book Title Johor
9 Book Chapter

Risk entrepreneurship and the construction of healthcare deservingness for ‘desirable’, ‘acceptable’ and ‘disposable’ migrants in Malaysia

Authors Meghann Ormond, Alice M. Nah
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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10 Journal Article

Transnational medical travel: patient mobility, shifting health system entitlements and attachments

Authors Meghann Ormond, Neil Lunt
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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11 Journal Article

Medical Travel/Tourism and the City

Authors Meghann Ormond, Heidi Kaspar
Year 2019
Book Title Handbook of Global Urban Health
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12 Book Chapter

Affirmative biopolitics: Social and vocational education for Quechua girls in the postcolonial “affectsphere” of Cusco, Peru

Authors Chih-Chen Trista Lin, Claudio Minca
Year 2018
Journal Name Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
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14 Journal Article

Adoption, genealogical bewilderment and biological heritage bricolage

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2018
Book Title After Heritage
15 Book Chapter

Rethinking care through transnational health and long-term care practices

Authors Meghann Ormond, Mika Toyota
Year 2018
Book Title Routledge Handbook of Health Geography
16 Book Chapter

Reflections on ‘medical tourism’ from the 2016 Global Healthcare Policy and Management Forum

Authors Valorie A. Crooks, Meghann Ormond, Ki Nam Jin
Year 2017
Journal Name BMC Proceedings
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17 Journal Article

Performing ‘Chinese‐ness’ in Singkawang: Diasporic moorings, festivals and tourism

Authors Chin Ee Ong, Meghann Ormond, Dian Sulianti
Year 2017
Journal Name Asia Pacific Viewpoint
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18 Journal Article

More than medical tourism: lessons from Indonesia and Malaysia on South-South intra-regional medical travel

Authors Meghann Ormond, Dian Sulianti
Year 2017
Journal Name CURRENT ISSUES IN TOURISM
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19 Journal Article

Connecting with prospective medical tourists online: A cross-sectional analysis of private hospital websites promoting medical tourism in India, Malaysia and Thailand

Authors Sedigheh Moghavvemi, Meghann Ormond, Ghazali Musa, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Tourism Management
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20 Journal Article

A state-level analysis of the economic impacts of medical tourism in Malaysia

Authors Jeroen Klijs, Meghann Ormond, Tomas Mainil, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name Asian-Pacific Economic Literature
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21 Journal Article

Knowledge transfer in the ‘medical tourism’ industry: the role of transnational migrant patients and health workers

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2016
Book Title Handbook of Migration and Health
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22 Book Chapter

Policy implications of medical tourism development in destination countries: revisiting and revising an existing framework by examining the case of Jamaica

Authors Rory Johnston, Valorie A. Crooks, Meghann Ormond
Year 2015
Journal Name Globalization and Health
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23 Journal Article

Neoliberal governance and international medical travel in Malaysia

Year 2015
Journal Name Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
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25 Journal Article

Solidarity by demand? Exit and voice in international medical travel – The case of Indonesia

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2015
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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26 Journal Article

Reviews

Authors Carrie Herzog, Willa Zhen, Jeff Fernandez, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Hospitality & Society
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27 Journal Article

What’s where? Why there? And why care? A geography of responsibility in medical tourism

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2015
Book Title Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility
28 Book Chapter

Transnational healthcare, cross-border perspectives

Authors David Bell, Ruth Holliday, Meghann Ormond, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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29 Journal Article

Government and governance strategies in medical tourism

Authors Meghann Ormond, Tomas Mainil
Year 2015
Book Title Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility
31 Book Chapter

Medical tourism in Malaysia: how can we better identify and manage its advantages and disadvantages?

Authors Meghann Ormond, Wong Kee Mun, Chan Chee Khoon
Year 2014
Journal Name Global Health Action
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32 Journal Article

Medical Tourism

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2014
Journal Name The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism
33 Journal Article

Resorting to Plan J: Popular Perceptions of Singaporean Retirement Migration to Johor, Malaysia

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2014
Journal Name Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
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34 Journal Article

Neoliberal governance and international medical travel in Malaysia

Authors Ruth Holliday
Year 2014
Journal Name Australian Geographer
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35 Journal Article

Resorting to Plan J: Popular Perceptions of Singaporean Retirement Migration to Johor, Malaysia

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2014
Journal Name Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
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36 Journal Article

You, too, can be an international medical traveler: Reading medical travel guidebooks

Authors Meghann Ormond, Matthew Sothern
Year 2012
Journal Name Health & Place
38 Journal Article

Medical tourism

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2012
Journal Name Australian Geographer
39 Journal Article

Shifting subjects of health-care: Placing ‘medical tourism’ in the context of Malaysian domestic health-care reform

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2011
Journal Name Asia Pacific Viewpoint
40 Journal Article

Defining ‘Family’ and Bringing it Together: The Ins and Outs of Family Reunification in Portugal

Authors Maria Lucinda Fonseca, Meghann Ormond
Year 2008
Journal Name The Family in Question
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41 Journal Article

Immigration, the internet, and spaces of politics

Authors Lynn A Staeheli, Valerie Ledwith, Meghann Ormond, ...
Year 2002
Journal Name Political Geography
42 Journal Article

Neoliberal Governance and International Medical Travel in Malaysia

Authors Meghann Ormond
Year 2013
Journal Name
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43 Journal Article

Medical Tourism

Year 2012
Journal Name
44 Journal Article

Suggested Research

4. Defining ‚Family‘ and Bringing It Together: The Ins and Outs of Family Reunification in Portugal

Authors Maria Lucinda Fonseca, Meghann Ormond
Year 2008
Book Title The Family in Question
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1 Book Chapter
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