Full Description
While migration has been a human constant, the past decade has brought an unprecedented number of migrants fleeing uninhabitable conditions in the countries or regions where they have been living. These people--displaced by famine, drought, disease, armed conflict, or persecution--often endure these conditions only to find themselves in another set of hostile circumstances as they try to find their way toward safety, at least, and a life of thriving at best.
Forced Migration and Health Justice focuses directly on forced migration, health, ethics, and justice. The book deploys a "journey" approach to highlight the ways in which structural injustice is central to what threatens migrants' health. Organized to map migrant journeys, the chapters follow the route of the forcibly displaced, analyzing the cultural norms; political, economic, and social policies; and institutional structures encountered along the way that thwart health justice for forced migrants.
The book is divided into four sections. The first section contains case studies depicting the plight of migrants in different regions, while the second section looks at life in detention facilities or encampments, spaces "inhabited" by so many forced migrants. The third section turns to destination countries and their treatment of the forcibly displaced in the context of health care, followed by the final section that offers arguments on the responsibilities of governments, international humanitarian organizations, health professionals, and civil society concerning structural health injustice.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Lisa Eckenwiler
A Map of the World
Anna Gotlib
FORCED DISPLACEMENT AND STRUCTURAL HEALTH INJUSTICE: FROM DEPARTURE TO DESTINATION AND THE IN-BETWEEN
Chapter 1: Tuberculosis, Human Rights, and Ethics Considerations along the Route of a Highly Vulnerable Migrant from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe
Verina Wild, Dilshad Jaff, N. Sarita Shah, and Mike Frick
Chapter 2: Environmental Migrants, Structural Injustice, and Moral Responsibility
James Dwyer
Chapter 3: Health Challenges and the "Forced" Migration of the Cameroonian Middle Class
Thierry Ngosso
Chapter 4: "You Venezuelans Are Shameless!" Connecting Reproductive and Immigration (in)Justice
Allison B. Wolf
Crossing the Volta
Alison Phipps
DETENTION AND ENCAMPMENT
Chapter 5: Immigration Detention and Health in Australia: A Structural Perspective
Ryan Essex
Place?
Sylvia Agbih
Chapter 6: The Health Impacts of Immigration Detention: Examining Moral Injury
Suresh Sundram, Debbie Hocking, and Sandra Passardi
Chapter 7: Towards a Pragmatic Solidarity with Refugees
Thalia Arawi and Anas El Zouhbi
Chapter 8: The Double-Edged Sword of Corporate Assistance to Humanitarian Work: The Case of Lebanon
Jihad Makhoul
The Waiting Word
Alison Phipps
"HOST" COUNTRIES
The Wait
Anna Dziuban
Chapter 9: Phenomenologies of "Successful" Exile: Narratives of Displacement and Disorientation
Anna Gotlib
Chapter 10: Disqualify, Disincentivize, and Dissonate: Immigration Law as a Barrier to Migrants' Healthcare Access
Y.Y. Brandon Chen
Hosts?
Sylvia Agbih
Chapter 11: The Securitization of Migrants' Health and the Medicalization of Citizenship
Ryoa Chung and Joanne Liu
Chapter 12: Structural Health Vulnerabilities and Refugees with Disabilities in Canada
Monika Noble, Mathieu Simard, Lisa Eckenwiler, Ryoa Chung, Robyn Mellett, and Matthew Hunt
RESPONSIBILITIES FOR HEALTH JUSTICE
I Heard You Say ...
Ayesha Ahmad
Chapter 13: Culpability, Liability, Responsibility, and Self-Interest: Analyzing the Reasons for our Duties to Refugees and Migrants
Peter West-Oram
Chapter 14: Hidden Knowledge and Epistemic (in)Justice in U.S. Migrant Detention
Shannon Fyfe
Chapter 15: Doctors as Immigration Agents: An Ethical Challenge
Amy Reed-Sandoval
Chapter 16: Resistance, Health, and Structural Injustice in the Context of Forced Displacement
Ryan Essex
Chapter 17: Dual Loyalties and Healthcare: The Weaponization of Suffering and the Ethics of Resistance
Deborah Zion
Refuge?
Sylvia Agbih
APPENDIX
Table of International Agreements in Relation to Migrant Health
Postscript
Index
