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Three Lessons from Leah
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“If the virus doesn’t kill us, the stress and anxiety will.” Immigrants during Covid
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayGrowing isolation, financial challenges and disease burden during the Covid-19 pandemic threaten to worsen the mental health needs of the entire U.S. population. These challenges are heightened among immigrants with untreated chronic mental health conditions as they experience added psychological distress owing to harsh immigration policies and worsening structural barriers to health during the pandemic.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Immigrants, Health Inequities, and Social Citizenship in Covid-19 Response and Recovery
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe novel coronavirus pandemic has starkly revealed the vulnerabilities of low-wage immigrants, immigrant-led households, and immigrant communities to coronavirus infection, severe Covid-19 illness, and economic fallout from pandemic. This public health emergency compounds pre-existing social inequa...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Public Charge Rule Is a Eugenic Policy
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayLast week, the Department of Homeland Security announced the final public charge rule, which revises the interpretation of “public charge” in the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the Final Rule, DHS may find applicants ineligible for a visa for admission to the U.S. or a green card g...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
From Outcry to Solidarity with Migrants: What Is the Good We Can Do?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayAnother June. Another public outcry about cruelty as policy harming migrants in United States custody. This summer, the photo of a drowned family, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter, Valeria, of El Salvador, shocks the conscience. Reporters are documenting the inhumane conditions in a Border Patrol facility where hundreds of children have been held. How should our field respond?Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Forced from Home: Evicting Immigrants from Public Housing Harms Children’s Health
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Immigrant Health and the Moral Scandal of the “Public Charge” Rule
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayA long-anticipated policy change proposed by the Trump administration that would count the use of many federally-subsidized programs against immigrants currently eligible to use them threatens public health and would undermine ethical practice in health professions and systems.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Beyond Breaking News: Ways of Seeing Migrants and Their Children
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What Are the Rules for Ethical Medication of Migrant Kids?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayReports that migrant children held by the Office of Refugee Resettlement are being drugged require an immediate and unambiguous response by the Trump administration. According to court filings, the drugs that are alleged to be among those given to children without their parents’ consent include cl...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Migrants’ Lives, Immigration Policy, and Ethics Work
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe Russian poet Anna Akhmatova was a mother separated from her child by a state policy of terror. During the 1930s, she and other mothers would gather outside a Leningrad prison, desperate for information. One day, after 17 months of “waiting in prison queues,” another woman whispered to her, ...Read the Post