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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: x, 249 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780415619066
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.3/291 22
LOC classification:
  • K 3275 \b .A74 2011
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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