Christine Straehle

Christine Straehle
Hamburg University | UHH · Department of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy

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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 th...
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Surrogacy is the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to a child for another would-be parent. The practice raises several ethical questions concerning, for example, the commodification of both surrogate and baby and the exploitation of the surrogate, issues which have been extensively debated. This book offers a fresh take on two diff...
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Surrogacy is the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to a child for another would-be parent. The practice raises several ethical questions concerning, for example, the commodification of both surrogate and baby and the exploitation of the surrogate, issues which have been extensively debated. This book offers a fresh take on two diff...
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Surrogacy is the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to a child for another would-be parent. The practice raises several ethical questions concerning, for example, the commodification of both surrogate and baby and the exploitation of the surrogate, issues which have been extensively debated. This book offers a fresh take on two diff...
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Surrogacy is the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to a child for another would-be parent. The practice raises several ethical questions concerning, for example, the commodification of both surrogate and baby and the exploitation of the surrogate, issues which have been extensively debated. This book offers a fresh take on two diff...
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En los últimos años, más de 7.5 millones de personas se han visto obligadas a desplazarse dentro de su territorio y más de 3.5 millones han tenido que migrar hacia otros países. El fenómeno migratorio ha sido estudiado desde distintos enfoques y perspectivas, desde las relaciones internacionales y la política internacional, hasta la sociología y lo...
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Addressing global health is one of the largest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, however, this task is becoming even more formidable with the accelerated destruction of the planet. Building on the success of the previous edition, the book outlines how progress towards improving global health relies on understanding its core social, ec...
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The volume addresses two concepts underexplored in migration ethics: political stability and solidarity. In his introductory article, Michael Blake argues that the Rawlsian notion of public reason cannot address threats to stability arising from authoritarian movements. In their contributions, Raissa Wihby Ventura, Bodi Wang, Susanne Mantel, Wolfra...
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If the aim of the feminist movement is the amelioration of the social position of women, feminism needs to presuppose an understanding of what women areand how they may be distinguished from men. At least since Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) the question "What is a Woman?" has been debated in feminist philosophy. It is widely agreed tha...
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The Political Philosophy of Refuge - edited by David Miller November 2019
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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 o...
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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 work...
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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...
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According to David Miller, there exists a special relationship between migrants at the border and members of a political community that the migrant hopes to join. It is the task of a political philosophy of migration to define a state’s obligations toward individuals who are vulnerable to the state’s actions without being members of the political c...
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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 ana...
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One of the defining features of the capability approach (CA) 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 recen...
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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 pro...
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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-I...
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Explores the moral dilemmas posed by disparities in health across nations: Read and download the introduction to Health Inequalities and Global Justice for free (pdf). Contributors to this volume considers whether health inequalities are a result of global distributive inequalities and are therefore of concern to those promoting global redistributi...
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There have been important similarities between Canada’s and Germany’s policies and approaches towards immigration and integration, ranging from practices of ethnic and racial exclusion in the first part of the last century to the subsequent development of both countries “into de-facto multicultural societies” (Triadafilopoulos, 2012: 2). However, b...
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When thinking about who is at risk in a global public health context, a few preliminary concepts need to be defined. This chapter explores what it means to be at risk and defines risk as being vulnerable to harm. Harm in turn is defined as not being able to protect one's interest. This first part establishes vulnerability to harm as an action-guidi...
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This paper investigates the specific conditions of female migrant workers who come to Canada as caregivers for the very young or the very old. Most of Canada's live-in caregivers come into the country under the auspices of the Live-in Caregiver program. I assess this program from the perspective of individual autonomy and vulnerability. I argue tha...
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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...
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This paper investigates the specific conditions of female migrant workers who come to Canada as caregivers for the very young or the very old. Most of Canada’s live-in caregivers come into the country under the auspices of the Live-in Caregiver program. I assess this program from the perspective of individual autonomy and vulnerability. I argue tha...
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Historically, Canada has adopted immigration policies focused on admitting migrants who were expected to become citizens. A dramatic shift has occurred in recent years as the number of temporary labourers admitted to Canada has increased substantially. Legislated Inequality critically evaluates this radical development in Canadian immigration, argu...
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This volume focuses on the moral dilemmas posed by health inequalities across borders, and examines to what extent inequalities in health pose problems for those concerned with global justice. The demands of global justice have been debated for some time now, and many have argued that any plausible account of global injustice takes its starting poi...
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Explores the moral dilemmas posed by disparities in health across nations. Millions around the world die from preventable diseases. Millions more suffer from poor health as a result of extreme poverty. Who bears responsibility for heath inequalities? Who should take responsibility for ameliorating them?Contributors to this volume consider whether h...
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Calls to expand temporary work programmes come from two directions. First, as global justice advocates observe, every year thousands of poor migrants cross borders in search of better opportunities, often in the form of improved employment opportunities. As a result, international organizations now lobby in favour of expanding ‘guest-work’ oppo...
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This paper analyses the ‘responsibility to protect’ (RtoP) from a moral cosmopolitan perspective. It argues, first, that RtoP postulates a remedial responsibility on the part of those nations that have the means and capacity to effectively protect individuals against vulnerability and to provide for the means of human security. Second, the paper ex...
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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 mi...
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Temporary labour migration is on the rise in the developed world. In May 2009, Canada's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration issued a report on the state of temporary and undocumented foreign workers in Canada, making a series of recommendations to ensure that labour needs can be met through temporary foreign workers and...
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Few would argue that access to healthcare is equitably distributed around the globe. Most would instead agree that living in a developed country gives a person more extensive access to healthcare than citizens of developing countries have. The definition of access to healthcare I want to employ here is that a person has access to a health professio...
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It is now frequently observed that millions around the world die from preventable diseases, and that millions more suffer from poor health as a result of extreme poverty. However ‘health’ is defined and however it is measured - and there is considerable controversy about both defining and measuring health - the citizens of developing countries fare...
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Contemporary Political Theory (2003) 2, 109–111. doi:10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300040
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We Are Not You: First Nations and Canadian ModernityDenisClaudePeterborough: Broadview Press, 1997, pp. 178 - Volume 31 Issue 4 - Christine Straehle

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