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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simmons, William Paul, 1965- editor.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Mexico.

Human rights.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Mexico.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Noncitizens--United States--Social conditions.

Noncitizens.

Illegal immigration.

Mexico--Foreign relations--United States.

Mexico.

United States--Foreign relations--Mexico.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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. The United States and Mexico share the longest border in the world between a developed and a developing nation; the relationship between the two nations is complex, varied, and constantly changing, but the policies of each directly affect the human rights situation across the border. Binational Human Rights brings together leading scholars and human rights activists from the United States and Mexico to explain the mechanisms by which a perfect storm of structural and policy factors on both sides has led to such widespread human rights abuses. Through ethnography, interviews, and legal and economic analysis, contributors shed new light on the feminicides in Ciudad Juárez, the drug war, and the plight of migrants from Central America and Mexico to the United States. The authors make clear that substantial rhetorical and structural shifts in binational policies are necessary to significantly improve human rights. Contributors: Alejandro Anaya Muñoz, Luis Alfredo Arriola Vega, Timothy J. Dunn, Miguel Escobar-Valdez, Clara Jusidman, Maureen Meyer, Carol Mueller, Julie A. Murphy Erfani, William Paul Simmons, Kathleen Staudt, Michelle Téllez.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1. Reflections on Immigration, Binational Policies, and Human Rights Tragedies

Chapter 2. Sexual Violence Against Migrant Women and Children

Chapter 3. Immigration Enforcement at the U.S.- Mexico Border: Where Human Rights and National Sovereignty Collide

Chapter 4. Politics of Death in the Drug War: The Right to Kill and Suspensions of Human Rights in Mexico, 2000– 2012

Chapter 5. Migration, Violence, and “Security Primacy” at the Guatemala- Mexico Border

Chapter 6. The Binational Roots of the Femicides in Ciudad Juárez

Chapter 7. Reflections on Antiviolence Civil Society Organizations in Ciudad Juárez

Chapter 8. The Persistence of Femicide amid Transnational Activist Networks

Chapter 9. Transnational Advocacy for Human Rights in Contemporary Mexico

Chapter 10. Restrictions on U.S. Security Assistance and Their Limitations in Promoting Changes to the Human Rights Situation in Mexico

Conclusion: Multiple States of Exception, Structural Violence, and Prospects for Change

Notes

References

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812209983

0812209982

OCLC:

891400033