Binational human rights : the U.S.-Mexico experience /
"Mexico ranks highly on many of the measures that have proven significant for creating a positive human rights record, including democratization, good health and life expectancy, and engagement in the global economy. Yet the nation's most vulnerable populations suffer human rights abuses o...
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Philadelphia, PA :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2014
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| Series: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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Table of Contents:
- Reflections on immigration, binational policies, and human rights tragedies / Miguel Escobar-Valdez
- Sexual violence against migrant women and children / William Paul Simmons and Michelle Téllez
- Immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border : where human rights and national sovereignty collide / Timothy J. Dunn
- Politics of death in the drug war : the right to kill and suspensions of human rights in Mexico, 2000-2012 / Julie A. Murphy Erfani
- Migration, violence and "security primacy" at the Guatemala-Mexico border / Luis Alfredo Arriola Vega
- The binational roots of the femicides in Ciudad Juárez / Carol Mueller
- Reflections on antiviolence civil society organizations in Ciudad Juárez / Clara Jusidman
- The persistence of femicide amid transnational activist networks / Kathleen Staudt
- Transnational advocacy for human rights in contemporary Mexico / Alejandro Anaya Muñoz
- Restrictions on U.S. security assistance and their limitations in promoting changes to the human rights situation in Mexico / Maureen Meyer
- Conclusion: multiple states of exception, structural violence, and prospects for change / William Paul Simmons