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Counter-hegemonic Human Rights Discourses and Migrant Rights Activism in the US and Canada

Fecha

2009

Autores

Tanya Basok

Resumen

Scholarship on the dissemination of human rights norms and principles has focused
predominantly on the socialization of nation-states into the values which have been
widely endorsed. I argue in this article that the socialization mechanisms, discussed by
such scholars as Meyer et al. (1997) and Risse and Sikkink (1999), do not capture the
complex processes of the negotiation of more controversial rights. Distinguishing between
hegemonic and counter-hegemonic human rights principles, I suggest that we need to
explore the ways in which human rights activists advance, interpret, and negotiate counterhegemonic
human rights. Focusing on migrants’ rights advocacy in the US and Canada,
I argue that pro-migrant activists draw on other human rights principles that do enjoy a
greater degree of recognition and/or on instrumental reasons to pressure nation-states to
grant more rights to migrants.

Journal title

Internatinal Journal of Comparative Sociology

Volumen

50

Número

2

Page numbers

183-205

Editor

SAGE Publications

Lugar de publicación

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC

Archivos adjuntos

    Conexiones

    Los sectores económicos

    Agriculture and horticulture workers, Occupations in services - Domestic work, Sales and service occupations - general, Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations - general, Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations - general, Labourers in food, beverage and associated products processing, Dancers, y Otro

    Tipos de contenido

    Análisis de políticas

    Los grupos destinatarios

    Los investigadores, Los sindicatos, y ONG / grupos comunitarios / redes de solidaridad

    Relevancia geográfica

    Estados Unidos, Ontario, y National relevance

    Esferas de la actividad

    Derecho, Ciencias Políticas, y Socioligie

    Idiomas

    Inglés