Arabs At Home and in the World - Human Rights, Gender Politics, and Identity

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent.

List of contents

Foreword

Adrien Wing

Part 1: The Intersection of Gender and Human Rights Norms for Individuals of Arab Descent

1. Introduction. Gender, Identity and Human Rights
Karla McKanders

2.Hijab as a Human Right
Louise Cainkar

3. The Accession of Palestine to CEDAW: Quo Vadis?

Mutaz M. Qafisheh
Part 2: At Home: Arab Spring, Gender and Human Rights

4.The Sources of Patriarchal Authority in the Maghreb
Fatima Sadiqi

5. Media Representations of Palestinian Women
Halla Shoaibi
Part 3: Impact of Gender on Arab Migration and Human Rights Norms

6. Reframing Violence Against Male Asylum Seekers from the Region as Gender-based Persecution
Valorie Vojdik

7. Gender, Islamophobia and Refugee Exceptionalism
Karla McKanders

8. Moroccan Women’s Migration to Europe as a Transformative Experience
Moha Ennaji

About the author

Karla M. McKanders is a Clinical Professor at Vanderbilt University, School of Law in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Summary

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent.

Product details

• Authors: Karla Mckanders, Karla (Vanderbilt University Mckanders, Karla M. (Vanderbilt University Mckanders
• Assisted by: Karla Mckanders (Editor), Karla M. McKanders (Editor), McKanders Karla (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367662622
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66262-2
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / International, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Public, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, International Law, LAW / Gender & the Law, Religion: general, Politics & government, Gender & the law, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups, Civil rights & citizenship, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Law and society, gender issues, Asylum Law