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When Humans Become Migrants

Marie-Benedicte Dembour

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Description for When Humans Become Migrants Paperback. The issue of migration presents clear challenges to international human rights courts due to its political sensitivity. This book contrasts the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, showing how their rulings differ on this issue. It argues that the Inter-American Court's approach is more sympathetic to the individuals involved. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: LBBR; LBHG; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 866.
The treatment of migrants is one of the most challenging issues that human rights, as a political philosophy, faces today. It has increasingly become a contentious issue for many governments and international organizations around the world. The controversies surrounding immigration can lead to practices at odds with the ethical message embodied in the concept of human rights, and the notion of 'migrants' as a group which should be treated in a distinct manner. This book examines the way in which two institutions tasked with ensuring the protection of human rights, the European Court of Human Rights and Inter-American Court of ... Read more

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Paperback

Publication date

2015

Publisher

Oxford University Press United Kingdom

Number of pages

576

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New

Number of Pages

578

Place of Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom

ISBN

9780199667840

SKU

V9780199667840

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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days

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99-6

About Marie-Benedicte Dembour

Marie-Bénédicte Dembour is Professor of Law and Anthropology at the University of Brighton. She was previously at the University of Sussex. She has been a visiting scholar/tutor/Professor at various European institutions, including the Free University of Amsterdam, the Free University of Brussels and the University of Oxford. When Humans Become Migrants was written with the support of a Leverhulme Major ... Read more

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When Humans Become Migrants is a magisterial endeavour which will become a standard work of reference for those working in the fields of migrants rights and the case law of the ECtHR. Despite being a lengthy, detailed work within narrowly drawn parameters, the clear, intuitive way in which the book, and each individual chapter, is structured, and the verve and ... Read moreclarity with which it is written lend it a discipline-transcending accessibility, which should ensure it the wide readership it merits.
Alan Desmond, Human Rights Law Review
With a title as hard hitting as When Humans Become Migrants one would hope the content of the book would be equally as striking, and thankfully it is. Through it, legal anthropologist Marie-Bénédicte Dembour challenges our thinking about the position and humanity of migrants, even before opening the book ... Dembours conceptual approach - contrasting the treatment of migrants in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with that of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) - provides a unique, highly relevant, and timely contribution to the field of human rights law and migration studies.
Rachael Owhin, Border Criminologies
This book is highly recommendable for students, academics, and practitioners working on migration and human rights. It is an excellent and crucial addition to the literature and the first book where both regional courts are carefully examined on the issue of migrant protection. This makes the publication a lasting contribution for years to come and a central landmark in the scholarly research on the subject.
Diego Acosta Arcarazo, Senior Lecturer in European and Migration Law, University of Bristol, Nordic Journal of Human Rights
Dembour's analysis is wide-ranging, covering historical and current developments in a range of areas of concern to migrants and their representatives. It is a work of sympathetic imagination which holds fast to its ideals even when writing against the mainstream.
Dr Helena Wray, The Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law
Dembour offers not only a perspicacious analysis and prudent suggestions, but also raises significant questions such as how the interests of migrants on one hand and of states on the other could be balanced without a bias for either or another, or how to regard the other as one of our own, create an open and inclusive attitude and set it as an institutional imperative.
Tea Skrinjaric, Allegra Lab: Anthropology, Law, Art & World
In her characteristically original, distinctive and insightful way, Dembour invites us to abandon preconceived ideas and to think differently. This is the role judges need legal scholars to perform if academic commentaries are to nourish judicial decision-making. An intelligent, lucid and courageous book that takes the debate into new territory.
Francoise Tulkens, Former Judge and Vice President - European Court of Human Rights
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