Immigration status and basic social human rights : a comparative study of irregular migrants' right to health care in France, the UK and Canada

Da Lomba, Sylvie; Crock, Mary, ed. (2015) Immigration status and basic social human rights : a comparative study of irregular migrants' right to health care in France, the UK and Canada. In: Migrants and Rights. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 381-416. ISBN 978-1472435972

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Abstract

The article examines the constraints that irregular migrants’ immigration status exerts on the realisation of their basic social human rights. To this end, the article focuses on the right to health care and undertakes a comparative study of irregular migrants’ access to health care in France, the United Kingdom and Canada. The study shows that States perceive the conferment of social rights on irregular migrants as an erosion of the government’s immigration power notwithstanding their characterisation as human rights. The resource-intensive nature of the right to health care further heightens States’ reluctance to extend this right to irregular migrants. Yet compliance with international human rights law and respect for human dignity require that States reinstate personhood as a source of rights and therefore reassess the relevance of their immigration power.

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Da Lomba, Sylvie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4163-1637; Crock, Mary
  • Item type:Book Section
    ID code:66746
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    3 September 2015
    Published
    Keywords:irregular migrants, human rights, social rights, Health care, France, United Kingdom, Canada, Law, Law
    Subjects:Law
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Law > Law
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:25 Jan 2019 15:27
    Last modified:24 Jul 2021 02:51
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66746
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