Description
Contemporary patterns of care worker migration have given rise to structural injustices for both the states from which such workers tend to migrate and the care workers themselves. In this paper, I critically examine an account of assigning rectificatory responsibility for these injustices offered by Eckenwiler and suggest that, though there is considerable insight to be gleaned from the account, its acute focus on two particular sorts of responsibility-generating relationships limits is efficacy. In response, I propose a model of assigning rectificatory responsibility that focuses on the opportunities or aid that all sorts of relationships to injustice generate.
Keywords
care worker migration, Lisa Eckenwiler, rectificatory injustice, rectificatory responsibility, transnational justice
Care Worker Migration and the Responsibility for Rectifying Injustice
Contemporary patterns of care worker migration have given rise to structural injustices for both the states from which such workers tend to migrate and the care workers themselves. In this paper, I critically examine an account of assigning rectificatory responsibility for these injustices offered by Eckenwiler and suggest that, though there is considerable insight to be gleaned from the account, its acute focus on two particular sorts of responsibility-generating relationships limits is efficacy. In response, I propose a model of assigning rectificatory responsibility that focuses on the opportunities or aid that all sorts of relationships to injustice generate.