Rights claiming in South Korea / edited by Celeste L. Arrington, Patricia Goedde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arrington, Celeste L., 1980- editor.

Goedde, Patricia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Korea (South).

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 342 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Although rights-based claims are diversifying and opportunities and resources for claims-making have improved, obtaining rights protections and catalysing social change in South Korea remain challenging processes. This volume examines how different groups in South Korea have defined and articulated grievances and mobilized to remedy them. It explores developments in the institutional contexts within which rights claiming occurs and in the sources of support available for utilizing different claims-making channels. Drawing on scores of original interviews, readings of court rulings and statutes, primary archival and digital sources, and interpretive analysis of news media coverage in Korean, this volume illuminates rights in action. The chapters uncover conflicts over contending rights claims, expose disparities between theory and practice in the law, trace interconnections among rights-based movements, and map emerging trends in the use of rights language. Case studies examine the rights of women, workers, people with disabilities, migrants, and sexual minorities.

Contents:

Introduction: Rights in action / Patricia Goedde and Celeste L. Arrington

Legal disputes, women's legal voice, and petitioning rights in late Joseon Korea / Jisoo M. Kim

Defying claims of incompetence : women's lawsuits over separate property rights in colonial Korea / Sungyun Lim

"Equal" second-class citizens : postcolonial democracy and women's rights in postliberation South Korea / Eunkyung Kim

A clash of claims : the diversity and effectiveness of rights claims around the Jeju 4.3 events / Hun Joon Kim

Advancing human rights, advancing a nation : becoming a Seonjinguk via the National Human Rights Commission of Korea / Soo-Young Hwang

The constitutional court as a facilitator of fundamental rights claiming in South Korea, 1988-2018 / Hannes B. Mosler

Rights claiming through the courts : changing legal opportunity structures in South Korea / Celeste L. Arrington

Public interest lawyering in South Korea : trends in institutional development / Patricia Goedde

From "we are not machines, we are humans" to "we are workers, we want to work" : the changing notion of labor rights in Korea, the 1980s to the 2000s / Yoonkyung Lee

From invisible beneficiaries to rights bearers : how the disability rights movement changed the law and Korean society / JaeWon Kim

The politics of postponement and sexual minority rights in South Korea / Ju Hui Judy Han

Discovering diversity : the anti-discrimination legislation movement in South Korea / Jihye Kim and Sung Soo Hong

The rights of noncitizenship : migrant rights and hierarchies in South Korea / Erin Aeran Chung

Claiming citizenship : rights claiming and recognition for North Koreans entering South Korea / Sheena Chestnut Greitens

Conclusion : findings and future directions / Celeste L. Arrington and Patricia Goedde.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-89808-4

1-108-89687-1

1-108-89394-5

OCLC:

1252404038