Abstract
The author delves into migration in a different way, not only in moving to another country but to another stage of life and even within your own posthuman body. The author starts exploring migration and bioethics in the context of climate change and increasing displacement. We need moral imagination and the ability to plan justice to ensure solidarity with displaced populations, especially the elderly and forcibly displaced. To begin with, increasing awareness of social, political, and cultural dimensions of disability can lead to a more culturally humble rework of the international classification of functioning, disability, and health. Furthermore, we'll know more about migration, ageing and the perpetuation of poverty through ethnic background inheritance. We'll also examine the potential of near-future healthcare devices in detecting health problems of refugees and even the use of chemical analysis to detect ethnic backgrounds at the border. Finally, the author speculates about the concept of cyborgs and transhumanism and the potential for abuse by those in power.
TopBodi And Migration As Usual
The expected degree of solidarity relies on our place-making towards the other, so it requires moral imagination. Also it requires the ability to plan justice. So much so that in bioethics, training in this mental gym can lead us to become more proficient when dealing with the forcibly displaced and elderly people’s problems, among many others (Eckenwiler, 2018). Both the high regulatory markets and the generous welfare for legal migrants like we see in Sweden, Norway and Denmark are the self-provoked migratory concerns that burden the disincentivized migrants (Brochmann & Hagelund, 2011). It’s not a byproduct of the lack of ethics, but the lack of bioethics.
The neurons’ ability to mirror the behaviour of others has given a say to neuroscience in the philosophical discussion about the “other minds” tackled before by Locke and Wittgenstein, among others (Hamauzu, 2018, p. 287). Empathy is human, desirable and unavoidable in most cases. However, separating mobility from migration leads to an uncritical discrimination between us and them and an inhuman line of thought (Sager, 2018). From our previous section in phenomenology we can see that an ethics of migration is impossible, useless or blatantly unneeded. Quite the opposite than a bioethics of displacement. For example, even if we consider that the gap in health care due to different languages will never be fully closed, the bioethics’ cornerstone of cultural humility will enhance our communication in a way that weighting the morals behind crossing borders never had given us.
The bioethics of displacement in migration goes beyond the human casuistry, reaches whatever we reach. The Beach Flats Garden Community in the greater Santa Cruz, close to the San Lorenzo River, is the scenario for “agroecologies of displacement” where the multidimensional dispossession have shaped creole agricultural practices bringing migration to veggies (Glowa et al., 2019). The most diminutive life forms can’t slip away from the aura of human displacement … even when they try their best. The Koch’s bacilli, responsible of tuberculosis, is responsible to political adjustment, but it’s needed a quite multidisciplinary approach to envisage its response including (Mason et al., 2017):
It means that the multidisciplinary work the bioethics is more used to deal with, happens to be its soundest moral ground when compared with ethics. I’m not apologising about sending ethics packing. Key moral values for the bioethics of displacement like inclusiveness and respect have a lifelong work in ethics that must be accommodated within. In the case of the Asian diaspora in the UK, for example, bioethics has performed greatly as a vehicle for embedding faith‐based values and needs of migrants at the end of life (Samanta et al., 2018).
Climate change is linked with the global displacement of people flowing as climatic refugees, mainly coming from (Heslin et al., 2019):
Key Terms in this Chapter
Solidarity: Unity, mutual support, and agreement among individuals or groups with shared interests, values, or goals.
Refugee: An individual forced to leave their country due to danger, seeking safety and protection in another nation.
Injustice: Unfair treatment, violation of rights, or lack of fairness, often targeting marginalised groups and individuals.
Public Health: The science of keeping communities healthy, preventing disease, and promoting well-being.
Moral Imagination: The ability to empathise, envision ethical solutions, and consider various perspectives in decision-making processes.
Cultural Humility: Recognizing and respecting cultural differences while maintaining an open and humble attitude.