Migrant Lives: Whose Responsibility?
Thursday, October 22, 2026 6:00 PM EDT
Online Location
Migrant Lives: Whose Responsibility?
Join the editors and authors of Forced Migration and Health Justice
October 22 from 6:00 to 7:15pm. Zoom pre-registration is required.
https://brooklyn-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Uza7aerbQ4q7K0ShaCl2BA
Join authors and editors of Forced Migration and Health Justice, recently published with OUP, to discuss the possible responsibilities of people engaged in different professional domains that impact the lives of migrants forced to flee their homes. The discussion will focus on questions of what might be the responsibilities of clinical care professionals, immigration officials in detention settings, designers of humanitarian accommodations, and policy makers and members of civil society in destination countries more generally.
Speakers:
Anna Gotlib is an associate professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY, specializing in feminist bioethics/medical ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of law. She serves as the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB).
Lisa Eckenwiler is a professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at George Mason University. Her research centers broadly on vulnerability and structural health injustice, with special interests in migration, humanitarian health ethics, and placemaking. Professor Eckenwiler is a Fellow of the Hastings Center, and served as Vice President of the International Association of Bioethics.
Ryoa Chung is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Université de Montréal and serves as the Co-Director of the Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRE). Her fields of research include ethics in international relations, feminist studies and applied political philosophy, particularly in the field of global health.
Shannon Fyfe is an associate professor at the Washington & Lee University School of Law, where she also holds a courtesy appointment in the philosophy department. Her primary areas of research are in legal philosophy and feminist ethics, especially related to international conflict, criminal law, and accountability.
Amy Reed-Sandoval is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is the author of Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics (OUP, 2025) and Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice (OUP, 2020).
Thalia Arawi is a clinical bioethicist, professor of bioethics, and author who serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the T2P Healthcare Ethics Training and Consultancy Center in Beirut.
Suresh Sundram is the Chair and Head of Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Australia. He is a psychiatrist who has worked with asylum seekers, refugees, and other forcibly displaced people for over 20 years in humanitarian and natural disaster contexts.
Link to Library Guide for New Books by HSS Faculty 2027 Series:
https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/wolfe2026/fallbooksbyhssfaculty
Link to webpage for the event (with Zoom link):
https://www.brooklyn.edu/event/migrant-lives-whose-responsibility/
Sponsored by: The Departments of Communications Arts, Sciences, and Disorders; Philosophy; Political Science; Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies; and Sociology; the Communication Program; The Brooklyn College Asian American, Native American, Pacific Islander Serving Institute (BCAP); The Honors Academy; The Immigrant Student Success Office (ISSO); The Women’s Center; and The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College; and The College of Humanities and Social Sciences at George Mason University
