COVID 19: Bioethics, the racial line and ethical praxis

Abstract

This article reflects upon the limits and potential of bioethics in a society in which not only people's values are hierarchised along racial lines, but the public and private interests are also structurally antagonised. The author focused on the experience of migrants and asylum seekers in Ireland during the COVID 19 Pandemic. Developing a literature review on bioethics and race, the author locates this case study within the liberal rationality, which is individualist and ultimately values people according to the market needs. Applying the concept of racial capitalism to make sense of racialisation processes, the author claims the need to build ethics that is also practice, what she calls, ethical praxis.

Perspectivas y experiencias del COVID 19 desde las personas migrantes, representantes territoriales y de organizaciones sociales. La relevancia del abordaje sociosanitario

“…Por su parte, "esa vulnerabilidad no conlleva per se una mayor empatía por parte del resto de la población hacia el colectivo inmigrante" (Rodríguez-Peral, 2020, p. 289), al contrario, en tiempos de crisis emerge con mayor fuerza la estigmatización o discriminación por parte de la sociedad de destino donde surgen los discursos nacionalistas, racistas y xenófobos (CEPAL, 2020;OIM, 2020;Sassi, 2020;ONU, 2020). De esta manera, según Kluge et.…”