# A Global Public Goods Approach to the Health of Migrants

## TL;DR

The paper suggests that health care for migrants should be seen as a global public good, offering a non-confrontational way to justify providing health services.

## Contribution

The novel idea is framing migrant health as global public goods, using self-interested arguments rather than rights-based ones.

## Key findings

- Health goods for migrants can be justified as global public goods based on specific criteria.
- This approach avoids confrontation and appeals to self-interest, making it more persuasive for skeptics of rights-based arguments.

## Abstract

This paper explores a global public goods approach to the health of migrants. It suggests that this approach establishes that there are a number of health goods which must be provided to migrants not because these are theirs by right (although this may independently be the case), but because these goods are primary goods which fit the threefold criteria of global public goods. There are two key advantages to this approach: first, it is non-confrontational and non-oppositional, and second, it provides self-interested arguments to provide at least some health goods to migrants and thus appeals to those little moved by rights-based arguments.