Ferry quarantine

The pandemic as a pretext to deny healthcare access to undocumented migrants and asylum seekers in Italy

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ID9954954
AuthorsCarlo Botrugno (0000-0002-6082-6205, Research Unit on Everyday Bioethics and Ethics of Science, Department of Legal Sciences University of Florence Florence Italy, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume61
Issue5
Pages262-268
Publication date2023-03-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/imig.13134
OpenAlexW4323925021
LanguageEN
References cited10

The outbreak of COVID‐19 forced national governments and health authorities worldwide to adopt measures aimed at protecting population health, most of which resulted in prolonged restrictions to individual freedom(s) and fundamental rights. In some cases, the pandemic represented a pretext for macroscopic and unjustified human rights violations, as in the case of the “ferry quarantine,” that is the use of commercial boats by the Italian Government to forcibly isolate migrants and asylum seekers from the rest of the population. Such a measure does not have any rationale at the epidemiological level and poses serious obstacles to the provision of adequate care to vulnerable people such as migrants and asylum seekers. The pandemic has been used as a pretext to implement discriminatory and disproportionate measures whose effect has been denying healthcare access to undocumented migrants and asylum seekers

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