Rightlessness in an age of rights : Hannah Arendt and the contemporary struggles of migrants / Ayten Gundogdu.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Gündoğdu, Ayten, Author.
• Gèundogdu, Ayten., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Human rights--Government policy.
• Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
• Emigration and immigration law.
• Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.
• Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gundogdu offers a critical inquiry of human rights by rethinking Hannah Arendt's political theory in the light of the challenging questions posed by contemporary struggles of migrants. Arendt wrote about the plight of statelessness in the immediate aftermath of World War II, and there have been remarkable developments in the field of human rights since then. Despite all the changes, however, various categories of migrants, especially asylum seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants, continue to find it very difficult to access human rights.

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 18, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-937044-3

OCLC:

1066625042