Forced Migration and Health Justice

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.

Lisa A. Eckenwiler, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at George Mason University. Verina Wild, MD, PhD, is the chair of Ethics in Medicine and director of the Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Anna Gotlib, JD, PhD, is an associate professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College. Ryoa Chung, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and co-director of the Centre for Research in Ethics at Université de Montréal. Deborah Zion, PhD, is an associate professor and chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee at Victoria University, Melbourne.

- 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 and Catherine El Ashkar - 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