Are Human Rights for Migrants? (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Reflections on the Status of Irregular Migrants in Europe and the United States
Redaktion: Dembour, Marie-Benedicte; Kelly, Tobias

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Are Human Rights for Migrants? Critical Reflections on the Status of Irregular Migrants in Europe and the United States examines upon the possibilities and limitations which arise from approaching the situation of migrants in human rights terms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136700071
• Artikelnr.: 38271964

Autorenporträt

Marie-Bénédicte Dembour is Professor of Law and Anthropology at the University of Sussex. She has written extensively on human rights, culture and migration. She is the author of the acclaimed monograph 'Who Believes in Human Rights: Reflections on the European Convention' (CUP 2006). Tobias Kelly currently teaches Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of 'Law Violence and Sovereignty Amongst West Bank Palestinians' (CUP, 2006) and 'This Side of Silence: Human rights, Torture and the Recognition of Cruelty' (UPenn Press, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Tobias Kelly; Part I: Taking it
as a given: The affirmation of the optimist; 1. The Recognition of the
Rights of Migrants within the UN Human Rights System: the First SixtyYears,
Stefanie Grant; 2. Irregular Migration and Frontier Deaths: Acknowledging a
Right to Identity, Stefanie Grant; Part II: Deliberating: The efforts of
those who work the system; 3. The Constitutional Status of Irregular
Migrants: Testing the Boundaries of Human Rights Protection in Spain and
the United States, Cristina Rodriguez and Ruth Rubio Marin; 4. The Human
Rights of Migrants as Legal tools and Discursive Principles for Re-Framing
Individual Justice in Modern Constitutionalism, Galina Cornelisse; Part
III: Protesting: The outrage of the witness; 5. 'Not our problem': Why the
conditions of irregular migrants in detention are not considered a human
rights issue in Malta, Daniela De Bono; 6. The Calaisis area: transit zone
or dead-end?, Marie Martin; Part IV: Keeping one's distance: The puzzlement
of the sceptic; 7. Human Rights and Immigration Detention in the UK, Mary
Bosworth; 8. The Legalisation of Human Rights and the Protection of Torture
Survivors: Asylum, Evidence and Disbelief, Tobias Kelly; 9. The Rights of
the Person: a Constitutional Agenda Drawn from the US Experience, Linda
Bosniak; 10. Afterword, Upendra Baxi