Women's rights, asylum jurisprudence and the crises of international human rights interventions

Sircar, Oishik (2009) Women's rights, asylum jurisprudence and the crises of international human rights interventions. In: The Fleeing People of South Asia. Anthem Press, Delhi, pp. 103-118. ISBN 9781843317784

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Abstract

The growth of the international women's rights movement and its emergence as a field of research and advocacy has led to a valuable but increasingly self-contained discourse, often cut off from developments in postcolonial conditionalities (‘Postcoloniality’), on the one hand, and conceptions of the different legal contexts in which international human rights operate, on the other. Such a trajectory of ‘development’ in human rights standards for women have no doubt had an enormous impact on women's lives worldwide, but simultaneously it is also culpable of creating the ‘woman-as-victim’ subject, ‘geographically captive’ in the ‘barbaric’ cultures of the ‘Third World’.

Item Type: Book Section
Keywords: Women's Rights | Postcolonial Feminism | International Refugee Law | Asylum seekers | Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Human Rights
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Law School
Depositing User: Amees Mohammad
Date Deposited: 01 Apr 2022 10:22
Last Modified: 13 Apr 2022 06:50
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.7135/UPO9781843317784.013
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/2059

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