Advancing the Rights of Non-Citizens in Canada: A Human Rights Approach to Migrant Rights
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- Date
2010-05-01
- Authors
Tanya Basok and Emily Carasco
- Abstract
Focusing on seasonal agricultural migrant workers in Canada, this article
illustrates how local migrant rights activists have utilized different judicial
fora to claim rights for non-citizen migrant workers under the international
human rights framework. The article underscores the role of litigation
by activists who, citing international norms and conventions, claim that
protections provided by domestic constitutional provisions and labor laws
should be extended to non-citizen migrants. The importance of judges’
willingness to recognize the international law framework is also underscored.
This article contributes to human rights studies by emphasizing
the transformative role of judicial agency in the fight for the extension of
human rights protections.- Journal title
Human Rights Quarterly
- Volume
32
- Issue
2
- Page numbers
342-366
- Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
- File Attachments
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Basok_Carasco_2010.pdf358 KB
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- Links
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http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/human_rights_quarterly/v032/32.2.basok.html (http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/human_rights_quarterly/v032/32.2.basok.html)
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- Economic sectors
Agriculture and horticulture workers, Occupations in services - Domestic work, Sales and service occupations - general, Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations - general, Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations - general, Labourers in food, beverage and associated products processing, Dancers, and Other
- Content types
Policy analysis
- Target groups
Researchers, Unions, and NGOs/community groups/solidarity networks
- Geographical focuses
Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, British Columbia, Other provinces, Federal, Nova Scotia, and National relevance
- Spheres of activity
Law, Political science, and Sociology
- Languages
English