ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the ethical and legal basis for ensuring health rights to all, while acknowledging that in the current political climate much work remains to be done to ensure access to health for all. It provides practical recommendations for health workers, grounded in international human rights law, in the hope that this information empowers them to contribute to combating discrimination on the basis of migration status. The chapter employs the terms migrant and non-migrant to examine the challenges posed by the contrast between their entitlements under national and international laws. It presents some clinical vignettes that highlight some of the issues faced by migrants and health professionals with whom they interact. Even in some of the world's wealthiest countries, the ‘modern conception that the national government is responsible for the health of the people’ seems to require a footnote defining who those people really are.
