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Ethics & International Affairs, Dec 31, 2022
Law, ethics and philosophy, Mar 17, 2023
Political Theory, Apr 1, 2019
Ethique des relations internationales, 2013
Routledge eBooks, Jun 24, 2022
Contemporary Political Theory, Mar 1, 2003
Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics, 2022
Cambridge Handbook of Global Health , 2021
The Anthropocene epoch is characterized by changes in weather and climate that may make human lif... more The Anthropocene epoch is characterized by changes in weather and climate that may make human life in some parts of the world difficult or impossible. This is expected to lead to massively increased migratory movements. In this chapter, I define specific risks that climate-induced migrants face, especially considering their unregulated internal migration. I then investigate adaptation strategies that have been taken by affected countries, most prominently relocation. From a health perspective, relocation may improve the social determinants of health, but poses possible problems for individual autonomy and collective self-determination. I also assess the call to identify climate-induced migrants as climate refugees and argue against the equivalence. Mass migration in the Anthropocene epoch demands new tools to protect individual basic needs than those known so far. It also demands a dramatic change in environmental policy and migration regimes of rich countries. Rich countries have remedial responsibilities to assist those countries most affected by climate change and current policies of non-entrée are a moral failure in this regard.
968-36-9528-0, Feb 17, 2003
Health Inequalities and Global Justice, 2012
In this paper, I challenge the argument that if we take health to be a meta-capability, we will b... more In this paper, I challenge the argument that if we take health to be a meta-capability, we will be able to address the vulnerabilities that characterize human life. Instead, I argue that some vulnerabilities, like that attached to being a patient, can not be successfully addressed
Managing the effects of global migration is among the most pressing problems that we face as a gl... more Managing the effects of global migration is among the most pressing problems that we face as a global community, and temporary labour migration programs (TLMP) are increasingly proposed as one of the best ways to resolve these problems. The Canadian government is not alone in its increasing reliance on TLMP to respond to acute labour shortages across a range of industries. In so doing, however, it is exacting a major shift in Canadas immigration policies, and it is doing so without a systematic and public discussion of the consequences of this shift. For the first time in 2008, the number of migrants admitted into Canada on temporary visas exceeded the number of migrants admitted on permanent visas, and evidence suggests that this trend will continue indefinitely. In this paper, I will address some of the problems with current programsin particular, I will talk about the danger of exploitation that temporary foreign workers are exposed to in the context of some of Canadas programs. ...
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2008
Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Bioethics, 2022
Journal of Social Philosophy, 2020
Hastings Center Report, 2019
We are, as of May 2019, witnessing yet another "caravan" of people fleeing violence in ... more We are, as of May 2019, witnessing yet another "caravan" of people fleeing violence in Latin America, bonding together to reach the territory of safer states in the North. Similarly, in the fall of 2015, Europe experienced the movement of many refugees fleeing war, persecution, and grave human rights violations in Syria. These new waves of people on the move have raised anew important questions about asylum and refuge: who should be able to claim asylum? Should the fear of persecution be sufficient, or do asylum seekers need to show that they have actually suffered it? And maybe most controversially, how should asylum-granting states respond to the plight of those asking for asylum on their territory? The moral principles guiding asylum and refuge are different from the rules usually regulating immigration, which are based on the principle of territorial sovereignty that allows nation-states to discriminate and select among those who hope to immigrate. Asylum and refuge instead call upon nation-states to provide refugees with a new home, protect human rights, and over time, provide access to the social, political and civic rights that characterize membership. Included in the list of human rights, I will argue, is the provision of the means for individual physical and psychological well-being.
Ethics & International Affairs, Dec 31, 2022
Law, ethics and philosophy, Mar 17, 2023
Political Theory, Apr 1, 2019
Ethique des relations internationales, 2013
Routledge eBooks, Jun 24, 2022
Contemporary Political Theory, Mar 1, 2003
Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics, 2022
Cambridge Handbook of Global Health , 2021
The Anthropocene epoch is characterized by changes in weather and climate that may make human lif... more The Anthropocene epoch is characterized by changes in weather and climate that may make human life in some parts of the world difficult or impossible. This is expected to lead to massively increased migratory movements. In this chapter, I define specific risks that climate-induced migrants face, especially considering their unregulated internal migration. I then investigate adaptation strategies that have been taken by affected countries, most prominently relocation. From a health perspective, relocation may improve the social determinants of health, but poses possible problems for individual autonomy and collective self-determination. I also assess the call to identify climate-induced migrants as climate refugees and argue against the equivalence. Mass migration in the Anthropocene epoch demands new tools to protect individual basic needs than those known so far. It also demands a dramatic change in environmental policy and migration regimes of rich countries. Rich countries have remedial responsibilities to assist those countries most affected by climate change and current policies of non-entrée are a moral failure in this regard.
968-36-9528-0, Feb 17, 2003
Health Inequalities and Global Justice, 2012
In this paper, I challenge the argument that if we take health to be a meta-capability, we will b... more In this paper, I challenge the argument that if we take health to be a meta-capability, we will be able to address the vulnerabilities that characterize human life. Instead, I argue that some vulnerabilities, like that attached to being a patient, can not be successfully addressed
Managing the effects of global migration is among the most pressing problems that we face as a gl... more Managing the effects of global migration is among the most pressing problems that we face as a global community, and temporary labour migration programs (TLMP) are increasingly proposed as one of the best ways to resolve these problems. The Canadian government is not alone in its increasing reliance on TLMP to respond to acute labour shortages across a range of industries. In so doing, however, it is exacting a major shift in Canadas immigration policies, and it is doing so without a systematic and public discussion of the consequences of this shift. For the first time in 2008, the number of migrants admitted into Canada on temporary visas exceeded the number of migrants admitted on permanent visas, and evidence suggests that this trend will continue indefinitely. In this paper, I will address some of the problems with current programsin particular, I will talk about the danger of exploitation that temporary foreign workers are exposed to in the context of some of Canadas programs. ...
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2008
Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Bioethics, 2022
Journal of Social Philosophy, 2020
Hastings Center Report, 2019
We are, as of May 2019, witnessing yet another "caravan" of people fleeing violence in ... more We are, as of May 2019, witnessing yet another "caravan" of people fleeing violence in Latin America, bonding together to reach the territory of safer states in the North. Similarly, in the fall of 2015, Europe experienced the movement of many refugees fleeing war, persecution, and grave human rights violations in Syria. These new waves of people on the move have raised anew important questions about asylum and refuge: who should be able to claim asylum? Should the fear of persecution be sufficient, or do asylum seekers need to show that they have actually suffered it? And maybe most controversially, how should asylum-granting states respond to the plight of those asking for asylum on their territory? The moral principles guiding asylum and refuge are different from the rules usually regulating immigration, which are based on the principle of territorial sovereignty that allows nation-states to discriminate and select among those who hope to immigrate. Asylum and refuge instead call upon nation-states to provide refugees with a new home, protect human rights, and over time, provide access to the social, political and civic rights that characterize membership. Included in the list of human rights, I will argue, is the provision of the means for individual physical and psychological well-being.
Debating Surrogacy
Debating Ethics is a series of volumes in which leading scholars defend opposing views on timely ... more Debating Ethics is a series of volumes in which leading scholars defend opposing views on timely ethical questions and core theoretical issues in contemporary moral, political, and legal philosophy.
Debating Surrogacy , 2023
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2019
Much of the debate around temporary foreign worker programs in recent years has focused on full o... more Much of the debate around temporary foreign worker programs in recent years has focused on full or partial access to rights, and, in particular, on the extent to which liberal democratic states may be justified in restricting rights of membership to those who come and work on their territory. Many accounts of the situation of temporary foreign workers assume that a full set of rights will remedy moral inequities that they suffer in their new homes. I aim to show two things: first, and based on experiences reported by former Live-in-Caregivers in Canada who now have access to the full set of citizenship rights, and German citizens who are descendants of Kurdish guestworkers in Germany, I have proposed that even after gaining citizenship, many of them experience social stigma and a sense of exclusion. Second, I have argued that this neglects a basic need that individuals have, which is to have access to relational resources within society in order to be protected against social deprivation. This need is seemingly immune to be effectively protected through the known catalogue of social, civic and political rights. Instead, I argue that social deprivation needs to be analyzed through the lens of institutional vulnerability to yield an analysis of the moral obligations of liberal democratic states.