 | Mark Hall Professor - Wake Forest University |
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03.07.2014-30.07.2014
Coverage of Undocumented Immigrants: Differing Conceptions of Social Justice
In this project, I will comprehensively survey European approaches to providing or limiting access to health care by illegal or temporary immigrants. I will also research ethical, philosophical, social, and political literature about this issue. Using this information and analytical insights, I'll will describe and categorize the approaches that prevail in Europe, and then analyze their justifications, premises, and other foundational elements. Immigrant access to health care ranges from full equal status, to no access except in dire emergencies, to various intermediate positions that limit access to greater or lesser extents (maternity care, primary care, urgent care, etc.). I will describe and document each of these. The moral and political bases for determining immigrant access to health care are both utilitarian and deontological. They include: pragmatism, instrumentalism, natural human rights, civic virtue, libertarianism, the rule of law, and religious views -- among other principles. I will articulate, illustrate, and analyze how each of these principled bases for supporting, opposing, or qualifying immigrant access (considering the principles both in isolation or in combination) might lead to one or more of the positions actually taken by various European countries.
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