TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alfredson,Lisa S.
TI  - Creating Human Rights: How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World
T2  - Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series
SN  - 9780812201062
AV  - HV6593.C2 -- A55 2009eb 
U1  - 362.88 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Sexual abuse victims-Services for-Canada
KW  - Women refugees-Services for-Canada
KW  - Women immigrants-Services for-Canada
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The Sex Persecution Campaigns -- 2 Human Rights, Social Movement, and Asylum Seeking -- 3 Global Challenges and Opportunities for Sex-Based Asylum Seeking -- 4 Moving In: Asylum Seekers' National Rights, Resources, and Opportunities -- 5 "Use My Name": Noncitizen Identity, Decisions, and Mobilization -- 6 Universalizing National Rights: Political Confrontation and Cultural Framing -- 7 Making Sex Persecution Matter -- Appendix: Comprehensive and Novel Aspects of Gender- Related Claims -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments
N2  - The first in-depth study of a novel women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to traditional conceptions of human rights. It illuminates keys to the movement's success, including, paradoxically, noncitizen politics, and uncovers critical implications for theories of human rights change
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