Abstract

CANO ISAZA, Tatiana Andrea. Migrants’ Health: A Reflection from Social Justice. Migr. Inter [online]. 2020, vol.11, e1747.  Epub Feb 17, 2021. ISSN 2594-0279.  https://doi.org/10.33679/rmi.v1i1.1747.

For the development of this paper, researches on migrants’ health were reviewed and they showed a pathologizing perspective –related to biopower–. As an alternative to this perspective, I propose that the health of migrants should be approached by public health services based on reflections from social justice, specifically from Benhabib’s ideas: the concrete other, which questions the homogenization of the subjects, and the right to have rights, which proposes that these be linked to the human condition, not to categories such as citizenship. This proposal is relevant, as the health impacts of migrants are linked to unequal living conditions, resulting from being considered risky to receiving societies. In that sense, the text’s approaches could focus on alternatives to improve their health such as offering a guarantee of rights, improving their living conditions, and receiving differential health care.

Keywords : emigration and immigration; social justice; public health; health of specific groups; immigrants’ health.