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The Unbordered Borders, Winston Langley
The Unbordered Borders, Winston Langley
Winston E. Langley
Many have taken on the task of purportedly advancing the cause of human rights by abstractly reciting them and clamoring for their implementation. Some speak about one’s right to free speech and democracy, for example, with a convenient forgetting of the right to education, which can promote the type of dialogical encounter that is sponsoring of liberatory, integrative construction and reconstruction of self and human societies. Others champion the right to freedom, but not the right to food, careless of the fact that the hungry are un-free, left as they are to the crushing dictates of their bellies; and still …
Causes And Consequences Of International Migration: Sociological Evidence For The Right To Mobility, Tanya Golash-Boza, Cecilia Menjivar
Causes And Consequences Of International Migration: Sociological Evidence For The Right To Mobility, Tanya Golash-Boza, Cecilia Menjivar
tanya golash-boza
Human rights declarations provide the right for any person to leave their country, yet do not provide the right to enter another country, stopping halfway in asserting a right to mobility. In this article we provide evidence that 1) state policies and actions create migration flows; 2) migrants often travel to fulfil their human rights; and 3) current restrictions on immigration curtail migrants’ human rights. We argue, based on sociological evidence, that the right to mobility is a fundamental human right, and deserves a place in human rights doctrine.