Are human rights for migrants? critical reflections on the status of irregular migrants in Europe and the United States / edited by Marie-Benedicte Dembour, and Tobias Kelly.
| Other author | Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte, 1961- |
| Other author | Kelly, Tobias. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, |
| Description | x, 249 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Marie-Benedictre Dembour and Tobias Kelly -- Part I. Taking it as a given : the affirmation of the optimist -- The recognition of migrants' rights within the UN human rights system : the first 60 years / Stefanie Grant -- Irregular migration and frontier deaths : ackowledging a right to identity / Stefanie Grant -- Part II. Deliberating : the efforts of those who work out the system -- The constitutional status of irregular migrants : testing the boundaries of human rights protection in Spain and the United States / Cristina M. Rodriguez and Ruth Rubio-Marin -- A new articulation of human rights, or shy the European Court of Human Rights should think beyond Westphalian sovereignty / Calina Cornelisse -- Part III. Protesting : the outrage of the witness -- The French Calaisis : transit zone or dead-end? -- 'Not our problem' : why the detention of irregular migrants is not considered a human rights issue in Malta / Daniela Debono -- Part IV. Keeping one's distance : the puzzlement of the sceptic -- Human rights and immigration detention in the United Kingdom / Mary Bosworth -- The legalization of human rights and the protection of torture survivors : asylum, evidence and disbelief / Tobias Kelly -- Human rights within one state : dilemmas of personhood in liberal constitutional thought / Linda Bosniak -- Afterword : the struggle for sans-papiers human rights / Upendra Bani. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010051730 |
| ISBN | 9780415619066 |
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