Book contents
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Chapter 20 The Environment, Ethics, and Health
- Chapter 21 Ecological Ethics, Planetary Sustainability, and Global Health
- Chapter 22 Mass Migration and Health in the Anthropocene Epoch
- Chapter 23 Animals, the Environment, and Global Health
- Chapter 24 Justice and Global Health: Planetary Considerations
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Chapter 22 - Mass Migration and Health in the Anthropocene Epoch
from Section 4 - Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
Book contents
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Chapter 20 The Environment, Ethics, and Health
- Chapter 21 Ecological Ethics, Planetary Sustainability, and Global Health
- Chapter 22 Mass Migration and Health in the Anthropocene Epoch
- Chapter 23 Animals, the Environment, and Global Health
- Chapter 24 Justice and Global Health: Planetary Considerations
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Summary
In a piece published in The Atlantic in December 1994, the authors discuss Jean Raspail’s novel, The Camp of the Saints, published in 1973. The novel depicts a dystopian future in which migrants from poor countries arrive on the shore of rich Europe
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