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Abstract

Deploying legal analysis and a small-scale qualitative dataset, this paper considers the right to health of asylum seekers, as a subgroup of distress migrants, in Greece in the years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic and thereafter. The public health care system in Greece is operating under significant constraints stemming from austerity policies. We analyze the legal entitlements of asylum seekers as found in Greek and international law and confirm a significant gap between the right to health in theory and the right to health in practice. While some administrative matters have improved, in general, widespread human rights failures to provide the right to health for vulnerable asylum seekers arriving in Greece continue. In particular, shortcomings in the health care system’s capacity and structure, as well as poor arrangements to secure the underlying conditions for good health, affect the practical realization of the right to health of asylum seekers, many of whom have complex health needs.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright © 2024 Ververidou and Hervey. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Subjects:	J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration K Law > K Law (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Departments:	The City Law School The City Law School > Academic Programmes
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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