Two Interesting Immigration Articles from SSRN

1.  Trafficking in Persons: A Human Rights Based Approach

Contact: APURBA KHATIWADA Affiliation Unknown Full Text: http://ssrn.com/abstract=899111

ABSTRACT: Human Beings’ fight for their existence has never been so intense, they survived the physical infliction of pain from war weapons but it seems the invasion on their dignity in the form of slavery, forced prostitution, experimental dummy, organ smuggling and so forth has been unprecedented in inflicting the pain and misery in millions and millions of lives across the globe. “Right to Dignified Life” is most probably the beginning and ultimate end of Human Rights Principle. But it is also true that the untold misery of people now days has to do with obliteration of this very basic Human Rights notion, even though people are not made to die they are left with no self-dignity, no voice and no remedy just a mere physical existence, that’s all. People are loosing their control over themselves, they don’t have control over their own body, work and their movement. And perhaps, all will agree that the most obvious reason is Trafficking in Persons.

2.  Why Children of Non-Documented Residents Should Have Access to Kidney Transplantation: Arguments for Lifting the Federal Ban on Reimbursement Transplantation, Forthcoming Contact: MARY SIMMERLING University of Chicago, University of Chicago – MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Chicago Transplant Ethics Consortium Co-Author: AVIVA GOLDBERG Independent Author Co-Author: JOEL FRADER Northwestern University.  Abstract: http://ssrn.com/abstract=900269 ABSTRACT: Current US legislation restricts reimbursement for organ transplantation for non-documented residents. This legislation makes it difficult for many immigrants, including children, to access the transplants they need. In this paper, we offer moral, economic, and legal reasons for thinking that that non-documented immigrants deserve the same access to kidney transplantation as legal residents do. Continued support for the ban on reimbursement for organ transplantation for non-documented residents appears to be based on unjustified fears and unsupported assumptions about the medical and financial costs to US citizens that would result from lifting the ban. We argue that such reasoning is not a solid basis for determining eligibility for lifesaving therapy for the neediest members of our society. Moreover, we argue that access to health care should be a human right, not a privilege meted out as a reward for good behavior or social worth; the use of arbitrary social criteria as a measure of eligibility for health care is not morally justifiable, even under conditions of scarcity.

KJ