Binational Human Rights : : The U.S.-Mexico Experience / / ed. by Carol Mueller, William Paul Simmons.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Dunn, Timothy J.,; Erfani, Julie A. Murphy,; Escobar- Valdez, Miguel,; Jusidman, Clara,; Meyer, Maureen,; Michelle,; Mueller, Carol,; Muñoz, Alejandro Anaya,; Simmons, Paul,; Simmons, William Paul,; Staudt, Kathleen,; Vega, Luis Alfredo Arriola,
• HerausgeberIn: Mueller, Carol,; Simmons, William Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 8 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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: Th e 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. Th e 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780812209983; 9783110638721; 9783110369526; 9783110370416; 9783110665932
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812209983
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Carol Mueller, William Paul Simmons.

Mexico ranks highly on many of the measures that have proven significant for creating a positive human rights record, including democratization, good health and life expectancy, and engagement in the global economy. Yet the nation's most vulnerable populations suffer human rights abuses on a large scale, such as gruesome killings in the Mexican drug war, decades of violent feminicide, migrant deaths in the U.S. desert, and the ongoing effects of the failed detention and deportation system in the States. Some atrocities have received extensive and sensational coverage, while others have become routine or simply ignored by national and international media. Binational Human Rights examines both well-known and understudied instances of human rights crises in Mexico, arguing that these abuses must be understood not just within the context of Mexican policies but in relation to the actions or inactions of other nations-particularly the United States.The United States and Mexico share the longest border in the world between a developed and a developing nation; the relationship between the two nations is complex, varied, and constantly changing, but the policies of each directly affect the human rights situation across the border. Binational Human Rights brings together leading scholars and human rights activists from the United States and Mexico to explain the mechanisms by which a perfect storm of structural and policy factors on both sides has led to such widespread human rights abuses. Through ethnography, interviews, and legal and economic analysis, contributors shed new light on the feminicides in Ciudad Juárez, the drug war, and the plight of migrants from Central America and Mexico to the United States. The authors make clear that substantial rhetorical and structural shifts in binational policies are necessary to significantly improve human rights.Contributors: Alejandro Anaya Muñoz, Luis Alfredo Arriola Vega, Timothy J. Dunn, Miguel Escobar-Valdez, Clara Jusidman, Maureen Meyer, Carol Mueller, Julie A. Murphy Erfani, William Paul Simmons, Kathleen Staudt, Michelle Téllez.