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Author Pérez-Bustillo, Camilo, 1955- author.

Title Human rights, hegemony, and utopia in Latin America : poverty, forced migration, and resistance in Mexico and Colombia / by Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo, Karla V. Hernández Mares
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; volume 87
Contents Preliminary Material / Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo and Karla V. Hernández Mares -- Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia / Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo and Karla V. Hernández Mares -- Poverty as a Crime against Humanity: International Poverty Law, Human Rights, and Global Justice, from Below / Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo and Karla V. Hernández Mares -- The Road to San Fernando: Theoretical Frameworks as to Forced Migration and Forced Displacement within the Context of Global Justice and Human Rights / Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo and Karla V. Hernández Mares -- Peoples in Movement -- International Tribunals of Conscience and Struggles of Migrants, Refugees, and the Displaced for Human Rights "from below" / Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo and Karla V. Hernández Mares -- The Counter-Hegemonic Origins and Potential of Human Rights, the Status of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America, and the World Bank as a Case Study / Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo and Karla V. Hernández Mares -- Mexico, Colombia, State Terror and Paramilitarism / Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo and Karla V. Hernández Mares -- Las Abejas of Acteal: From Massacre to Resurrection / Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo and Karla V. Hernández Mares -- The Right to Community Autonomy, Justice, and Security in Mexico and Colombia as a form of Resistance / Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo and Karla V. Hernández Mares -- Bibliography / Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo and Karla V. Hernández Mares -- Index / Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo and Karla V. Hernández Mares
Summary Human Rights, Hegemony and Utopia in Latin America: Poverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo and Karla Hernández Mares explores the evolving relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights, within the context of cases in contemporary Mexico and Colombia, and their broader implications. The first three chapters provide an introduction to the booḱs overall theoretical framework, which will then be applied to a series of more specific issues (migrant rights and the rights of Indigenous peoples) and cases (primarily focused on contexts in Mexico and Colombia,), which are intended to be illustrative of broader trends in Latin America and globally
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human rights -- Latin America
Immigrants -- Crimes against -- Mexico
Immigrants -- Crimes against -- Colombia
Forced migration -- Mexico
Forced migration -- Colombia
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Forced migration
Human rights
Immigrants -- Crimes against
Armut
Menschenrecht
Colombia
Latin America
Mexico
Kolumbien
Mexiko
Form Electronic book
Author Hernández Mares, Karla V., author.
LC no. 2016026875
ISBN 9789004319776
9004319778