Binational Human Rights : The U. S. -Mexico Experience.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES IN BINATIONAL CONTEXT -- Chapter 1: Reflections on Immigration, Binational Policies, and Human Rights Tragedies -- Chapter 2: Sexual Violence Against Migrant Women and Children -- Chapter 3: Immigration Enforcement at the U.S.- Mexico Border: Where Human Rights and National Sovereignty Collide -- PART II: THE MEXICAN DRUG WAR IN BINATIONAL CONTEXTS -- Chapter 4: Politics of Death in the Drug War: The Right to Kill and Suspensions of Human Rights in Mexico, 2000-2012 -- Chapter 5: Migration, Violence, and "Security Primacy" at the Guatemala-Mexico Border -- PART III: STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN CIUDAD JUÁREZ -- Chapter 6: The Binational Roots of the Femicides in Ciudad Juárez -- Chapter 7: Reflections on Antiviolence Civil Society Organizations in Ciudad Juárez -- PART IV: TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- Chapter 8: The Persistence of Femicide amid Transnational Activist Networks -- Chapter 9: Transnational Advocacy for Human Rights in Contemporary Mexico -- Chapter 10: Restrictions on U.S. Security Assistance and Their Limitations in Promoting Changes to the Human Rights Situation in Mexico -- Conclusion: Multiple States of Exception, Structural Violence, and Prospects for Change -- Notes -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

With contributions from leading scholars and activists from the U.S. and Mexico, Binational Human Rights analyzes the feminicides in Ciudad Juárez, the drug war, and the plight of migrants within the context of U.S. and Mexican policies, which mutually affect human rights conditions in each nation.

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