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How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity with Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border?

  • Carlos Martinez
  • , Lauren Carruth
  • , Hannah Janeway
  • , Lahra Smith
  • , Katharine M. Donato
  • , Carlos Piñones-Rivera
  • , James Quesada
  • , Seth M. Holmes
  • UCB S.A.
  • American University Washington DC
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Georgetown University
  • San Francisco State University
  • University of California at Berkeley

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Abstract

Migrants along the US-Mexico border have been subjected to transnational violence created by international policy, militaristic intervention, and multinational organizational administration of border operations. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded migrants’ vulnerabilities and provoked several logistical and ethical problems for US-based clinicians and organizations. This commentary examines how the concept of transnational solidarity facilitates analysis of clinicians’ and migrants’ shared historical and structural vulnerabilities. This commentary also suggests how actions implemented by one organization in Tijuana, Mexico, could be scaled more broadly for care of migrants and asylum seekers in other transnational health care settings.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)E275-E282
JournalAMA Journal of Ethics
Volume24
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2022

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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