When Humans Become Migrants: Study of the European Court of Human Rights with an Inter-American Counterpoint

by Marie-Benedicte Dembour

Book Overview

The treatment of migrants is one of the most challenging issues that human rights, as a political philosophy, faces today. It has increasingly become a contentious issue for many governments and international organizations around the world. The controversies surrounding immigration can lead to practices at odds with the ethical message embodied in the concept of human rights, and the notion of 'migrants' as a group which should be treated in a distinct...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199667845
• ISBN13: 9780199667840
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 578 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"