Are Human Rights for Migrants Critical Reflections on the Status of Irregular Migrants in Europe and the United States 1st Edition by Marie Bénédicte Dembour, Tobias Kelly 9780415619066 0415619068

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ISBN 10: 0415619068
ISBN 13: 9780415619066
Author: Marie Bénédicte Dembour, Tobias Kelly

Human rights seemingly offer universal protection. However, irregular migrants have, at best, only problematic access to human rights. Whether understood as an ethical injunction or legally codified norm, the promised protection of human rights seems to break down when it comes to the lived experience of irregular migrants. This book therefore asks three key questions of great practical and theoretical importance. First, what do we mean when we speak of human rights? Second, is the problematic access of irregular migrants to human rights protection an issue of implementation, or is it due to the inherent characteristics of the concept of human rights? Third, should we look beyond human rights for an effective source of protection? Written is an accessible style, with a range of socio-legal and doctrinal approaches, the chapters focus on the situation of the irregular migrant in Europe and the United States. Throughout the book, nuanced theoretical debates are put in the context of concrete case studies. The critical reflections it offers on the limitations and possibilities of human rights protections for irregular migrants will be invaluable for students, scholars and practitioners.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I. Taking it as a Given: The Affirmation of the Optimist

Chapter 2: The Recognition of Migrants’ Rights within the UN Human Rights System: The First 60 Years

Chapter 3: Irregular Migration and Frontier Deaths: Acknowledging a Right to Identity

Part II. Deliberating: The Efforts of Those Who Work Out the System

Chapter 4: The Constitutional Status of Irregular Migrants: Testing the Boundaries of Human Rights Protection in Spain and the United States

Chapter 5: A New Articulation of Human Rights, or Why the European Court of Human Rights Should Think Beyond Westphalian Sovereignty

Part III. Protesting: The Outrage of the Witness

Chapter 6: The French Calaisis: Transit Zone or Dead-End?

Chapter 7: ‘Not Our Problem’: Why the Detention of Irregular Migrants Is Not Considered a Human Rights Issue in Malta

Part IV. Keeping One’s Distance: The Puzzlement of the Sceptic

Chapter 8: Human Rights and Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom

Chapter 9: The Legalization of Human Rights and the Protection of Torture Survivors: Asylum, Evidence and Disbelief

Chapter 10: Human Rights within One State: Dilemmas of Personhood in Liberal Constitutional Thought

Chapter 11: Afterword: The Struggle for Sans-Papiers Human Rights

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