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

Petsa

2009

May-akda

Tanya Basok

Buod

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

Dami

50

Numero

2

Page numbers

183-205

Editor

SAGE Publications

Lugar ng publikasyon

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

Kalakip

    Connections

    Pang-ekonomiyang sektor

    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, and Iba

    Mga Uri ng Nilalaman

    Policy analysis

    Target na mga grupo

    Mananaliksik, Mga unyon, and NGO / komunidad group / network ng pagkakaisa

    Geographical kaugnayan

    Estados Unidos, Ontario, and National relevance

    Spheres ng aktibidad

    Karapatan, Pampulitika Agham, and Socioligie

    Wika

    Ingles