The Right to Health Care for Irregular Migrants in Norway: Interpretation, Accessibility, and Gaps Between Needs and Rights
dc.contributor.author | Haddeland, Hanna Buer | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-08T09:29:20Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-07T08:01:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-08T09:29:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-07T08:01:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-05-13 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Haddeland. The Right to Health Care for Irregular Migrants in Norway: Interpretation, Accessibility, and Gaps Between Needs and Rights. Nordic Journal of Human Rights. 2020; 37(4):329-349 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1891-8131 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1891-8131 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1891-814X | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/8817 | |
dc.description.abstract | Based on legal interpretation, interviews with rejected asylum seekers, and decisions from hospitals and the County Governor, this article examines the degree of compliance with the human right to health care for adult irregular migrants in Norway. The findings indicate that a certain minimum of health care services is accessible for most. However, economic concern represents a heavy burden. Fear of deportation, often considered a barrier to health care in earlier studies, represents a problem for those who evade deportation and lack information about health-care providers’ duty of confidentiality. Unclear legislation leads to uncertainty among health personnel. This uncertainty produces, in some cases, an arbitrary practice. The article suggests that the most serious gaps between health-care needs, national legislation, and international human rights obligations appear to exist concerning the lack of rehabilitation rights after surgery, the lack of health care for patients suffering from serious mental health issues, and the high threshold for treatment of chronic diseases. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Nordic Journal of Human Rights;Volume 37, 2019 - Issue 4 | |
dc.rights | © 2020 Oslo Metropolitan University. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. | en |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Irregular migrants | en |
dc.subject | Health rights | en |
dc.subject | Health care | en |
dc.subject | Accessibility | en |
dc.subject | Affordability | en |
dc.subject | Arbitrary practices | en |
dc.title | The Right to Health Care for Irregular Migrants in Norway: Interpretation, Accessibility, and Gaps Between Needs and Rights | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2020-07-08T09:29:20Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2020.1731970 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1811264 | |
dc.source.journal | Nordic Journal of Human Rights | |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200 | |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social sciences: 200 |
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