 | Creating Human Rights: How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World Subjects: Sexual abuse victims -- Services for -- Canada; Women refugees -- Services for -- Canada; Women immigrants -- Services for -- Canada; The first in-depth study of a novel women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to traditional conceptions of human rights. It illuminates keys to the movement's success, including, paradoxically, noncitizen politics, and uncovers critical implications for theories of human rights change. Lisa S. Alfredson teaches at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. |
