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25Migration, 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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38Conditions of care: Migration, vulnerability, and individual autonomyInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 6 (2): 122. 2013.International migration has a female face in the beginning of the twenty-first century; since at least 1990, a total of 49 percent of international migrants have been women (UN 2008).1 Many women relocate in pursuit of goals that they can’t realize in their countries of origin, and many women move on their own to developed countries as caregivers to the very old or the very young, as nurses to attend to the sick in hospitals, and as domestic workers.2 How should we regard their decisions to do s…Read more
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31The Political Philosophy of Refuge (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2019.How to assess and deal with the claims of millions of displaced people to find refuge and asylum in safe and prosperous countries is one of the most pressing issues of modern political philosophy. In this timely volume, fresh insights are offered into the political and moral implications of refugee crises and the treatment of asylum seekers. The contributions illustrate the widening of the debate over what is owed to refugees, and why it is assumed that national state actors and the internationa…Read more
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96Cosmopolitaniam, nation-states, and minority nationalism: A critical review of recent literatureEuropean Journal of Philosophy 7 (1). 1999.
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13Global 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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41Associative Solidarity, Relational Goods, and Autonomy for Refugees: What Does it Mean to Stand in Solidarity with Refugees?Journal of Social Philosophy 51 (4): 526-542. 2020.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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19Asylum, 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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39Vulnerability, Rights, and Social Deprivation in Temporary Labour MigrationEthical Theory and Moral Practice 22 (2): 297-312. 2019.Much of the debate around temporary foreign worker programs in recent years has focused on full or partial access to rights, and, in particular, on the extent to which liberal democratic states may be justified in restricting rights of membership to those who come and work on their territory. Many accounts of the situation of temporary foreign workers assume that a full set of rights will remedy moral inequities that they suffer in their new homes. I aim to show two things: first, and based on e…Read more
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12Global 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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17Émotions et les conditions de l’autonomie individuellePhilosophiques 45 (2): 507-512. 2018.Christine Straehle
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27Book Review: Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, edited by Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi (review)Political Theory 47 (2): 300-305. 2019.
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10Global Justice, Temporary Migration and VulnerabilityGlobal Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 5 (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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62Justice in migrationCanadian Journal of Philosophy 48 (2): 245-265. 2018.The movement of people across borders is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Yet it is still unclear how migration should be regulated to be fair to the sending societies, the host societies and the individual migrant. What is at issue? Are we discussing migration from an ethical or from a political philosophical perspective, or both? Are we discussing migration from a global justice perspective or social justice perspective? Do we consider political legitimacy and democratic self-deter…Read more
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24Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics (edited book)Routledge. 2016.Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself—what it is and why it is morally salient—is under-theorized. _Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics _brings together theorists working on conceptualizing vulnerability as an action-guiding principle in these discussions, as well as bioethicists, medical ethicists and public policy theorists working on instances of vulnerability in specific contexts.…Read more
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14Multicultural Jurisdictions — Cultural Differences and Women's RightsContemporary Political Theory 2 (1): 109-111. 2003.
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318Autonomy, Well-Being and the Order of Things: Gilabert on the conditions of social and global justiceLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 8 (2): 110-120. 2013.Gilabert argues that the humanist conception of duties of global justice and the principle of cosmopolitan justifiability will lead us to accept an egalitarian definition of individual autonomy. Gilabert further argues that realizing conditions of individual autonomy can serve as the cut-off point to duties of global justice. I investigate his idea of autonomy, arguing that in order to make sense of this claim, we need a concept of autonomy. I propose 4 possible definitions of autonomy, none of …Read more
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61Territoire, migration et l'état légitimePhilosophiques 39 (2): 393. 2012.Qui peut revendiquer un territoire, sur quelles bases et avec quelles conséquences sont des questions qui font l’objet de débats en philosophie politique contemporaine. En réponse, j’adopte « la théorie de l’État légitime » proposée par Stilz. Selon Wellman, une conséquence des revendications territoriales serait le droit de l’État de refuser la migration sur son territoire. Je juxtapose son propos de l’État légitime avec celui de Stilz et soutiens que, si l’on accepte la fondation de l’État lég…Read more
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37Temporary labour migration: Exploitation, tool of development, or both?Policy and Society 29 (4): 283-294. 2010.
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43Falling into the justice gap? Between duties of social and global justiceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 19 (6): 645-661. 2016.The literature on cosmopolitan justice has yet to address what principles to adopt when duties of global justice and duties of social justice are in conflict. In this paper, I address David Miller’s contention that some may fall into the justice gap since we need to prioritize duties of social justice in cases of conflict. I argue that Miller’s analysis depends on three stipulations: the incommensurability of the values underlying duties of social justice and those of global justice; the need to…Read more
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836Is There a Right to Surrogacy?Journal of Applied Philosophy 32 (3). 2015.Access to surrogacy is often cast in the language of rights. Here, I examine what form such a right could take. I distinguish between surrogacy as a right to assisted procreation, and surrogacy as a contractual right. I find the first interpretation implausible: it would give rise to claims against the state that no state can fulfil, namely the provision of sufficient surrogates to satisfy the need. Instead, I argue that the right to surrogacy can only be plausibly understood as a contractual ri…Read more
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62Vulnerability, Health Agency and Capability to HealthBioethics 30 (1): 34-40. 2015.One of the defining features of the capability approach to health, as developed in Venkatapuram's book Health Justice, is its aim to enable individual health agency. Furthermore, the CA to health hopes to provide a strong guideline for assessing the health-enabling content of social and political conditions. In this article, I employ the recent literature on the liberal concept of vulnerability to assess the CA. I distinguish two kinds of vulnerability. Considering circumstantial vulnerability, …Read more
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53Is There a Right to Surrogacy?Journal of Applied Philosophy 33 (2): 146-159. 2015.Access to surrogacy is often cast in the language of rights. Here, I examine what form such a right could take. I distinguish between surrogacy as a right to assisted procreation, and surrogacy as a contractual right. I find the first interpretation implausible: it would give rise to claims against the state that no state can fulfil, namely the provision of sufficient surrogates to satisfy the need. Instead, I argue that the right to surrogacy can only be plausibly understood as a contractual ri…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 |
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Normative Ethics |
Kantian Ethics |
Moral Contractualism |
Distributive Justice |
Global Justice |
Reproductive Ethics |
Moral Psychology |