Human Rights and Citizenship : the Case of Mexicain Migrants in Canada
- Petsa
2003
- May-akda
Tanya Basok
- Buod
According to several scholars, the emergence of supra-national human rights institutions have caused a fundamental shift from national citizenship (a nation-based notion of rights) to post-national citizenship )a more individual-based universal conception of rights based on an international human rights regime). The notion of "postnational citizenship" has been challenged by many researchers who have argued that universal principles of human rights cannot be implemented and enforced without the consent of nation-states. Although nation-states have demonstrated a certain degree of respect for universal principles, their commitment to the ideas of post-national citizenship are based on a conception of citizenship rooted in membership in a particular bound community. The two notions of citizenship--one linked to inclusive universal rights and the other to membership in an exclusive community--are at times contradictory. Using the case of Mexican migrants working in Canada, this presentation will emphasize the difference between rights as a set of principles and laws on the one hand, and their actual practice and implementation on the other. Basok will argue that whereas legal access to economic rights has been extended to non-citizens residing in the national territory of sovereign nation-states, membership in the national community has often been denied to them, thus precluding them from exercising the rights to which they have been granted legal access.
- Series Pamagat
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies working papers
- Dokumento Numero
wrkg72
- Number of pages
23
- Responsable institusyon
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies - University of California
- Lugar ng publikasyon
San Diego
- Kalakip
- Connections
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http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/wrkg72.pdf (http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/wrkg72.pdf)
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- Pang-ekonomiyang sektor
Agriculture and horticulture workers
- Mga Uri ng Nilalaman
Policy analysis
- Target na mga grupo
Mananaliksik and Mga unyon
- Regulasyon lugar
Karapatang magpalit ng employer, Karapatan na pumili ng kanilang lugar ng paninirahan, Kanan upang ayusin ang, Labour Standards, Kalusugan at Kaligtasan, Pagsasama-sama ng mga programa para sa mga bagong dating, Kalusugan at Serbisyong Panlipunan, Access sa permanenteng katayuan, Family reunification, Karapatan sa kalayaan, and Karapatan sa karangalan
- Geographical kaugnayan
Canada, Ontario, Alberta, México, Manitoba, Quebec, British Columbia, Iba pang mga Lalawigan, Pederal, and Nova Scotia
- Spheres ng aktibidad
Pampulitika Agham and Socioligie
- Wika
Ingles