Discrimination and the exclusion of people with disabilities
| Autor: | Sahar Akhtar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Ethics & Global Politics, Vol 17, Iss 2-3, Pp 68-82 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 16544951 1654-6369 1654-4951 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/16544951.2024.2361562 |
| Popis: | My paper explores the question of when it is wrong for a state’s immigration criteria to discriminate against people with disabilities, focusing on the idea that discrimination is wrong when it demeans a group, rather than when it disadvantages them. I argue that selecting against people with disabilities often demeans them but might not always do so even when immigration criteria explicitly exclude people on the basis of having disabilities – that is, in cases of direct discrimination. Moreover, I demonstrate that certain cases of less direct forms of discrimination that select against people with disabilities – in particular, when states apply health-cost limits on admissions – can function as proxies designed to exclude people with disabilities and thereby demean them. Finally, I explain why my analysis of discrimination’s wrong does not typically apply to health conditions in general, such as heart, liver, or lung disease or cancer, setting my view apart from a prominent view in the literature. |
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