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16Asylum, Refuge, and Justice in HealthHastings Center Report 49 (3): 13-17. 2019.We are, as of May 2019, witnessing yet another “caravan” of people fleeing violence in Latin America, bonding together to reach the territory of safer states in the North. Similarly, in the fall of 2015, Europe experienced the movement of many refugees fleeing war, persecution, and grave human rights violations in Syria. These new waves of people on the move have raised anew important questions about asylum and refuge: who should be able to claim asylum? Should the fear of persecution be suffici…Read more
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15Émotions et les conditions de l’autonomie individuellePhilosophiques 45 (2): 507-512. 2018.Christine Straehle
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12Global Justice, Temporary Migration and VulnerabilityGlobal Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 5. 2014.Liberals are concerned with the equal moral status of all human beings. This article discusses what flows from this premise for moral cosmopolitans when analysing temporary foreign worker programs for low-skilled workers. Some have hailed these programs as a tool to achieve redistributive global goals. However, I argue that in the example of Live-In-Caregivers in Canada, the morally most problematic aspect is that it provokes vulnerability of individual workers. Once in a situation of vulnerabil…Read more
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11Global Justice, Temporary Migration and VulnerabilityGlobal Justice Theory Practice Rhetoric 5 71-81. 2012.Liberals are concerned with the equal moral status of all human beings. This article discusses what flows from this premise for moral cosmopolitans when analysing temporary foreign worker programs for low-skilled workers. Some have hailed these programs as a tool to achieve redistributive global goals. However, I argue that in the example of Live-In-Caregivers in Canada, the morally most problematic aspect is that it provokes vulnerability of individual workers. Once in a situation of vulnerabil…Read more
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8Migration, Climate Change, and VoluntarinessEthics and International Affairs 37 (4): 452-469. 2023.Climate change challenges the means of subsistence for many, particularly in the Global South. To respond to the challenges of climate change, countries increasingly resort to resettling those most affected by land erosion, heat, drought, floods, and the like. In this article, I investigate to what extent resettlement can compensate for the harm that climate-induced migration brings. The first harm I identify is that to individual autonomy. I argue that climate change changes the options of thos…Read more
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University of OttawaGraduate School of Public and International Affairs
Department of PhilosophyProfessor -
APA Western Division
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Areas of Specialization
Global Justice |
Moral Contractualism |
Reproductive Ethics |
Kantian Ethics |
Moral Psychology |
Areas of Interest
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Normative Ethics |
Kantian Ethics |
Moral Contractualism |
Distributive Justice |
Global Justice |
Reproductive Ethics |
Moral Psychology |