Emerging threats to human rights : resources, violence, and deprivation of citizenship / edited by Heather Smith-Cannoy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith-Cannoy, Heather M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Human security.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Rome ; Tokyo : Temple University Press, [2019]

Summary:

As widespread environmental degradation threatens the basic human rights of a large proportion of the world's population, we are also confronting the worst migration crisis in the modern era. Emerging Threats to Human Rights searches among the interrelated causes of these overlapping crises. The editor and contributors to this timely anthology assess how environmental resources, state violence, and the deprivation of nationality/citizenship are linked to gain a better understanding of how human rights abuses intersect with patterns of migration. As some refugees flee violence at home, they arrive in an asylum country only to experience violence at the hands of the native population. Likewise, those denied citizenship rights in their country become vulnerable to human traffickers and other rights violations when they flee.  Bringing together scholars of resource dilemmas, violence, and citizenship as well as lawyers and human rights practitioners, Emerging Threats to Human Rights begins by identifying the core causes of human rights violations confronting our world today. Chapters also consider whether and to what extent these emerging threats to human rights serve as drivers of displacement.

Contents:

Introduction : emerging threats to human rights / Heather Smith-Cannoy

Climate change, human rights and migration / Michelle Scobie

Right to water : remedying violations by non-state actors / Beatrice Lindstrom

Protecting people or land? : global tradeoffs between safeguarding human rights and physical environments / Bob Mandel

Out of the fire, intro the frying pan? : examining violence against forced migrants in Africa / Kerstin Fisk

Human security and the perils of (partial) peace : human rights after ceasefires / Neil A. Englehart

Transitional justice mechanisms and human rights / Brian Frederking and Max Aviles

Deprivation of citizenship : an examination of the Rohingya refugee crisis / Heather Smith-Cannoy

Challenges in protection : stateless refguees and victims of human trafficking in the European Union / Patricia Rodda and Charles Anthony Smith

The fates of survival migrants : the quality of refuge / Jeannette Money and Shaina Western

Conclusion / Heather Smith-Cannoy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439917206

1439917205

OCLC:

1078970511