Détails du document

Impression et sauvegarde

Article de journal

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

Date

2009

Auteurs

Tanya Basok

Résumé

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

Volume

50

Numéro

2

Page numbers

183-205

Éditeur

SAGE Publications

Lieu de publication

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

Fichiers joints

    Liens

    Secteurs économiques

    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 et Autre

    Types de contenu

    Policy analysis

    Groupes cibles

    Chercheurs, Syndicats et ONG/groupes communautaires/réseaux de solidarité

    Pertinence géographique

    États-Unis, Ontario et National relevance

    Sphères d’activité

    Droit, Science politique et Socioligie

    Langues

    Anglais