Forced Migration and Health Justice
Anna Gotlib editor Lisa A Eckenwiler editor Verina Wild editor Deborah Zion editor Ryoa Chung editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:9th Mar '26
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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.
This exceptionally valuable volume deepens and enriches the literature on forced migration. The book explores the variety and complexity of questions about health justice that emerge in the context of forced migration, and it provides an illuminating set of critical and normative responses to those questions. * Joseph H. Carens, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Toronto *
This book reveals important commonalities in the experiences of people displaced by famine, drought, armed conflict, and persecution. The authors challenge the sharp distinction between voluntary and non-voluntary migration, and portray the overlapping structural impediments to health justice at every step of the journey from displacement to host-country residency. Furthermore, they supplement biomedical models of health by illustrating how adverse health impacts are intertwined with threats of violence, erosion of agency, psychological trauma, and the loss of identity-conferring community. The resulting work addresses questions about shared and individualized responsibilities for justice in an interconnected global order marked by vast power imbalances. * Madison Powers, Francis J. McNamara Jr Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University *
Forced Migration and Health Justice makes a compelling case for why those interested in bioethics ought to take forced migration more seriously, and how those interested in questions about justice for refugees and asylum seekers ought to pay more attention to health justice. It shows how important a structural perspective on health and human rights is to understanding the full arc of forced displacement. A fundamental contribution to our understanding of justice and forced migration. * Serena Parekh, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Northeastern University *
ISBN: 9780197795491
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
Weight: 640g
330 pages