Right to health, irregular immigration and linkage to the pronouncements of international supervisory bodies: chronicle of a canadian grotesque

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  • Daría Terrádez Salom Universidad de Valencia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46661/lexsocial.7550

Keywords:

health, social rights, militant democracy, irregular immigration, rule of law

Abstract

This paper analyses the opinion of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in the Nell Toussaint affair, on denial of the right to medical assistance of a migrant in an irregular administrative situation.

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Published

2022-10-02

How to Cite

Terrádez Salom, D. (2022). Right to health, irregular immigration and linkage to the pronouncements of international supervisory bodies: chronicle of a canadian grotesque. Lex Social: Journal of Social Rights, 13(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.46661/lexsocial.7550

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