Includes papers presented at a conference held in April 2017 at the University of Connecticut's Stamford Campus under the sponsorship of the Senator Joseph I. Lieberman Conference & Lecture Series on Human Rights Practice.--ECIP acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Constructing human rights : state power and migrant silence / Jaya Ramji-Nogales -- The unmaking of citizens : shifting borders of belonging / Kristy A. Belton and Jamie Chai Yun Liew -- Zero humanity : the reality of current U.S. immigration policy toward Central American refugee children and their families / Jacqueline Bhabha -- Australia's extraterritorial border control policies / Azadeh Dastyari and Asher Hirsch -- Protection through revisionism? : UNHCR, statistical reporting, and the representation of stateless people / Brad K. Blitz -- Reflections on anti-immigration narratives and the establishment of global apartheid / Yajaira Ceciliano-Navarro, Tanya Golash-Boza, and Luis Ruben Gonzalez -- Imagining new forms of belonging : the futurity of the stateless / Eleni Coundouriotis -- "Either I close my eyes or I don't" : the evolution of rights in encounters between sovereign power and "rightless" migrants / Daniel Kanstroom -- Do non-citizens have a right to have economic rights? : Locke, Smith, Hayek, and Arendt on economic rights / Serena Parekh -- Human rights are not enough : understanding noncitizenship and noncitizens in their own right / Tendayi Bloom -- Uncertainty and educational mismatch : schooling and life pursuits in contexts of illegalization / Susan Bibler Coutin -- Constructing human rights : state power and migrant silence / Jaya Ramji-Nogales -- Index.
Summary:
"These were the words of the President of the United States at a September 2020 campaign rally in Duluth, Minnesota. These words are not only emblematic of now-standard fearmongering about the economic impact of accepting refugees. They also shine a spotlight on what we believe is a fundamental shift in discourse around non-citizens that has been building for some time, driven by populist, nativist, and racist tropes of the "other"--A shift from a language of compassion to one of indifference or apathy. According to the President, it is "disgraceful" to give refuge to those who are suffering, or to provide medical and other aid to those without. This book is an attempt to respond to that shift by exploring what, if any, obligations we as humans have to other humans. Featuring contributions drawn from a range of disciplinary perspectives, the chapters in the first part of this book seek to shed light on the original promise of human rights law and how that promise has failed - spectacularly so in many places - to provide a basis for ensuring rights. Human rights law, a supposedly universal body of law that applies to every individual, has long tolerated limits on human rights protections for non-citizens"-- Provided by publisher
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