Human rights, migration and social conflict : towards a decolonized global justice / Ariadna Estévez Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estévez, Ariadna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Emigration and immigration.

Immigrants--Government policy.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Civil rights.

Human rights.

Immigrants--Social conditions.

Social conflict--Political aspects.

Social conflict.

Physical Description:

226 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Social conflict involving migrants, which includes terrorism, migrant trafficking and kidnappings, and riots and the occupation of public places, is a direct result of the systematic refusal of receiving countries to recognize that migrants have universal human rights. Analysis of this causal relationship indicates that certain elements of migration policy in Europe and North America-such as the securitization of border controls and development cooperation policies, the use of foreigner internment camps as part of a tougher asylum policy, the criminalization of irregular migration, and social exclusion resulting from widespread discrimination-lead to violent social conflict. These violent conflicts of potentially global impact could be prevented were countries that receive migrants to adopt a system of justice-a decolonized global justice-that recognizes the human rights of migrants. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Human rights and conflict in modern migration

Human rights in the securitization of cooperation for development and of borders, and the toughening of asylum policy

Human rights in the criminalization of migration and the marginalization resulting from social discrimination

Conflict and human rights: the consequences of denying human rights

Against citizenship: intertextuality and the human rights to mobility

Decolonized global justice and the rights to mobility: taking the human rights of migrants seriously

Conclusion: is decolonized global justice viable for preventing conflicts related to the denial of human rights to immigrants?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230339446

0230339441

OCLC:

768480281