Creating human rights : how noncitizens made sex persecution matter to the world /

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Creating Human Rights offers the first systematic study of a pioneering women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to more conventional paths toward human rights policy development. Lisa S. Alfredson...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alfredson, Lisa S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Subjects:
Sexual abuse victims > Services for > Canada.
Women refugees > Services for > Canada.
Women immigrants > Services for > Canada.
Victimes d'abus sexuels > Services > Canada.
Réfugiées > Services > Canada.
Immigrantes > Services > Canada.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Sexual abuse victims > Services for
Women immigrants > Services for
Women refugees > Services for
Canada
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the sex persecution campaigns
  • Human rights, social movement, and asylum seeking
  • Global challenges and opportunities for sex-based asylum seeking
  • Moving in : asylum seekers' national rights, resources, and opportunities
  • "Use my name" : noncitizen identity, decisions, and mobilization
  • Universalizing national rights : political confrontation, and cultural framing
  • Making sex persecution matter.

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