Recent publications on international human rights
| DOI | 10.1177/0924051918771240 |
| Published date | 01 June 2018 |
| Date | 01 June 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Recent publications |
Recent publications
Recent publications on
international human rights
Citizenship and Immigrant Incorporation: Comparative Perspectives on North America and
Western Europe / Gokce Yurdakul (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. ISBN: 1-349-60259-0
The contributions in this volume consider the question of migrant agency, how Western societies
are both transforming migrants, and being transformed by them. It is informed by debates on the
new ‘transnational mobility’, the immigration of Muslims, the increasing importance of human
rights law, and the critical attention paid to women migrants.
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Comparative Discrimination Law: Historical and Theoretical Frameworks / Laura Carlson. Brill,
2017. ISBN: 2452-2023
Human history is marked by group and individual struggles for emancipation, equality and self-
expression. This first volume in the Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination
Law briefly explores some of the history underlying these efforts in the field of discrimination law.
A broad discussion of the historical development of issues of discrimination is first set out, looking
at certain international, regional and national bases for modern discrimination legal structures.
Several of the theoretical frameworks invoked in a comparative discrimination law analysis are
then addressed, either as institutional frameworks or theories addressing specific protection
grounds. This first volume is dedicated to setting out an introduction to the field of comparative
discrimination law to give the reader a platform from which to undertake further reading and
research in the compelling topic of comparative discrimination law.
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The Cultural Politics of Human Rights: Comparing the US and UK / Kate Nash. Cambridge
University Press, 2009. ISBN: 0-511-51754-8
How does culture make a difference to the realization of human rights in Western states? It is only
through cultural politics that human rights may become more than abstract moral ideals, protecting
human beings from state violence and advancing protection from starvation and the social destruc-
tion of poverty. Using an innovative methodology, this book maps the emergent ‘intermestic’
human rights field within the US and UK in order to investigate detailed case studies of the cultural
politics of human rights. Kate Nash researches how the authority to define human rights is being
created within states as a result of international human rights commitments. Through comparative
case studies, she explores how cultural politics is affecting state transformation today.
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Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
2018, Vol. 36(2) 159–164
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