The Human Rights of Migrants
A special issue of Laws (ISSN 2075-471X). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Rights Issues".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2024) | Viewed by 4921
Special Issue Editors
Interests: immigration; asylum and refugee law and policy; comparative Latin American law; sustainable development; transitional justice; human rights
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to embark on a Special Issue focused on the human rights of migrants. Our aim is to focus on how a human rights framework could fill gaps to protect migrant groups traditionally or newly left out of the law’s protections. These groups include categories of forcibly displaced peoples, such as climate or economic refugees, Indigenous people, internally displaced peoples, or those escaping privatized violence who cannot satisfy narrow definitions of asylum and refugee laws. The focus includes the daily lives of immigrants, both with or without regular status, and their experiences regarding integration in their host country or in their place of origin after voluntary or involuntary repatriation. We are especially interested in the exploration of innovative approaches, either by individual nations or by localities within nations, to restore personhood to migrants irrespective of immigration status. We are also open to articles that explore approaches grounded in abolition—whether of borders or immigration enforcement practices like detention—that seek to dismantle the structural barriers that impede migrants’ full enjoyment of their rights.
Prof. Dr. Raquel E. Aldana
Prof. Dr. Beth Lyon
Guest Editors
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