Gillian Brock is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the university of Auckland in New Zealand. She is the author of Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (Oxford University Press, 2009), and editor or co-editor of Current Debates in Global Justice (Springer, 2005), The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism (Cambridge,2005), and Necessary Goods: Our Responsibilities to Meet Others’Needs (Rowman and Littlefield,1998).
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Published in: HomeMigration and global justice: realistic options for here and nowImmigration is one area of concern for the author of Global Justice: a Cosmopolitan Account, which examines how several policy options might advance or undermine global justice. In this extract, some real and perceived consequences of immigration are explored, taking as a particular case study, health worker migration. There are a number of problems with current policy, but for the developing rather than the developed countries