Binational human rights : the U.S.-Mexico experience / edited by William Paul Simmons and Carol Mueller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simmons, William Paul, 1965- editor.

Mueller, Carol McClurg, editor.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Mexico.

Human rights.

Mexico.

Mexico--Foreign relations--United States.

International relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Mexico.

Physical Description:

vi, 300 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Summary:

"Mexico ranks highly on many of the measures that have proven significant for creating a positive human rights record, including democratization, good health and life expectancy, and engagement in the global economy. Yet the nation's most vulnerable populations suffer human rights abuses on a large scale, such as gruesome killings in the Mexican drug war, decades of violent feminicide, migrant deaths in the U.S. desert, and the ongoing effects of the failed detention and deportation system in the States. Some atrocities have received extensive and sensational coverage, while others have become routine or simply ignored by national and international media. Binational Human Rights examines both well-known and understudied instances of human rights crises in Mexico, arguing that these abuses must be understood not just within the context of Mexican policies but in relation to the actions or inactions of other nations, particularly the United States."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Reflections on immigration, binational policies, and human rights tragedies / Miguel Escobar-Valdez

Sexual violence against migrant women and children / William Paul Simmons and Michelle Téllez

Immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border : where human rights and national sovereignty collide / Timothy J. Dunn

Politics of death in the drug war : the right to kill and suspensions of human rights in Mexico, 2000-2012 / Julie A. Murphy Erfani

Migration, violence and "security primacy" at the Guatemala-Mexico border / Luis Alfredo Arriola Vega

The binational roots of the femicides in Ciudad Juárez / Carol Mueller

Reflections on antiviolence civil society organizations in Ciudad Juárez / Clara Jusidman

The persistence of femicide amid transnational activist networks / Kathleen Staudt

Transnational advocacy for human rights in contemporary Mexico / Alejandro Anaya Muñoz

Restrictions on U.S. security assistance and their limitations in promoting changes to the human rights situation in Mexico / Maureen Meyer

Conclusion: multiple states of exception, structural violence, and prospects for change / William Paul Simmons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0812246284

9780812246285

OCLC:

880757777