Medical justice for undocumented migrants

Arnold, F.; Chalmers, Iain; Herxheimer, Andrew; Lewith, George; Kennedy, Stephen Paul; Kandela, Peter; Nicholl, David; Campion, Daniel; Morton, Hugh G.; Natarajan, Ram; Milne, Ruairidh; Chung, Elaine Y.; Jobst, K; McCulloch, Peter; Halpin, David; Goldwyn, Charmian; Denman, Chess; Hey, Edmund; Zajicek, John; Fulton, Jamie; Alderson, Phil; Williams, H. P.; Gilbert, Ruth; Baum, Michael

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(08)60110-5

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“…An open debate was initiated in the medical community; the Royal College of General Practitioners issued a position statement13 and societies such as Medical Justice published correspondence articles in the Lancet 14. The decision would have affected the everyday workings of primary care, and the debate was firmly rooted on an infringement of human rights.…”

Section: Why Are Human Rights Important?mentioning

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Health and human rights: an area of neglect in the core curriculum?

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Medical ethics and law education in the UK is undergoing continuous transformation. In parallel, human rights teaching with respect to health is expanding as a distinct field. Yet a resistance to the inclusion of human rights in the medical ethics and law curriculum persists. In response to Stirrat and colleagues, this article seeks to highlight the mutual benefit that could be derived from an integration of human rights into the already established medical ethics and law teaching in medical schools. It proposes that incorporating human rights into the curriculum would add value to traditional medical ethics and law teaching and provide a promising opportunity to enhance the interest from the student body.

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Section: Why Are Human Rights Important?mentioning

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Health and human rights: an area of neglect in the core curriculum?

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“…Prior to the 2009 Court of Appeal judgement, the UK government had been considering means to abolish the right of failed asylum seekers to NHS primary healthcare (DoH, 2004) (there had been conjecture that, with the upcoming government review of access to NHS services by 'overseas visitors' a change was considered imminent (Medact, 2007a) (Arnold et al, 2008).…”

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Refugees and Asylum Seekers

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2014

Key Concepts in Migration

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“…Around the globe, debates about unauthorized im/migrants’“deservingness”—or lack thereof—are ubiquitous in popular, policy, and NGO discussions of unauthorized im/migration and health. Although a handful of bioethicists have begun to contemplate the dilemmas associated with “illegality” and deservingness in a philosophical idiom (e.g., Coyle 2003; Dwyer 2004) and some clinicians have begun to debate these questions in medical journals (Anya 2007; Arnold et al 2008; Kullgren 2008; Virgilio et al 2007), few medical anthropologists—or other social scientists of health—have paid it serious ethnographic attention to date (cf. Chavez 2008; Grove and Zwi 2006; Horton 2004; Ruiz‐Casares et al 2010; Willen forthcoming‐a, forthcoming‐b).…”

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Take a Stand Commentary: How Can Medical Anthropologists Contribute to Contemporary Conversations on “Illegal” Im/migration and Health?

2011

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Of the estimated 214 million people who have migrated from poorer to richer countries in search of a better life, between 20 and 30 million have migrated on an unauthorized, or "illegal," basis. All have health needs, or will in the future, yet most are denied health care available to citizens and authorized residents. To many, unauthorized im/migrants' exclusion intuitively "makes sense." As scholars of health, social justice, and human rights, we find this logic deeply flawed and are committed to advancing a constructive program of engaged critique. In this commentary, we call on medical anthropologists to claim an active role in reframing scholarly and public debate about this pressing global health issue. We outline four key theoretical issues and five action steps that will help us sharpen our research agenda and translate ourselves for colleagues in partner disciplines and for broader audiences engaged in policymaking, politics, public health, and clinical practice.

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Medical justice for undocumented migrants

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Health and human rights: an area of neglect in the core curriculum?

Health and human rights: an area of neglect in the core curriculum?

Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Take a Stand Commentary: How Can Medical Anthropologists Contribute to Contemporary Conversations on “Illegal” Im/migration and Health?

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