Introduction Locating rights, envisioning law between the global and the local

Goodale, Mark

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511819193.001

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“…In fact, the naturalization of long-staying Burundian refugees in Tanzania in 2014 is the only recent example (Hovil, 2016, p. 51 (Goodale, 2007). Yet, the implementation of these rights generally continues to be the domain of the nation-state.…”

Section: Refugees and Their Positions Within Nation-statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refugee Education

Dryden‐Peterson¹

2016

Educational Researcher

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In this article, I probe a question at the core of comparative education—how to realize the right to education for all and ensure opportunities to use that education for future participation in society. I do so through examination of refugee education from World War II to the present, including analysis of an original data set of documents ( n = 214) and semistructured interviews ( n = 208). The data illuminate how refugee children are caught between the global promise of universal human rights, the definition of citizenship rights within nation-states, and the realization of these sets of rights in everyday practices. Conceptually, I demonstrate the misalignment between normative aspirations, codes and doctrines, and mechanisms of enforcement within nation-states, which curtails refugees’ abilities to activate their rights to education, to work, and to participate in society.

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Section: Refugees and Their Positions Within Nation-statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refugee Education

Dryden‐Peterson¹

2016

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“…After all, the injustices experienced by blacks and 'coloreds' under the apartheid regime in South Africa were similar in many ways to those experienced by blacks in America's segregated south, as noted by Watson 70 . While human rights are the international community's attempt to define minimum standards for human freedom and flourishing, this is largely a moral project that lacks a system of enforcement 71 . Civil rights, in contrast, have a basis in law.…”

Section: Fighting Racial Injustice In the United States And In South mentioning

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Theorising social transformation in occupational science: The American Civil Rights Movement and South African struggle against apartheid as 'Occupational Reconstructions'

Frank

Muriithi

2015

S. Afr. j. occup. ther.

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INTRODUCTIONThis article introduces the theory of occupational reconstructions. This new theory is intended to enable occupational science to describe, explain and study -in occupational terms -how people act to change their situations for what they believe will be for the better. Applying the theory to the American civil rights movement and the South African struggle against apartheid, the article aims to demonstrate how political activism functions occupationally. The theory is intended to provide a bridge between current thinking in occupational science and future occupational therapy practice for social change. Occupational reconstruction theory brings an actionoriented framework to occupational science and occupational therapy regarding social justice, occupational injustice, collective action, political approaches, and critical theories.The theory of occupational reconstructions builds on important steps to date. First, occupational therapy already holds social participation to be within its scope of practice 1,2 . Second, occupational science as an academic discipline has made it possible to conceive of occupations, such as social participation, more expansively than occupational therapy practice typically does in today's health care systems 3,4 . Consequently, it has become possible to glimpse a near future when occupational therapists will use occupational science theories and empirical research to help to change lives not only individually but more widely, in the aggregate, through public health policy interventions and community-based collaborations 5,6,7,8,9 . Further, concepts and theories in occupational science are emerging that re-imagine societal participation on a global scale. The literature concerned with occupational injustice, for example, addresses human rights and capabilities in the broadest possible sense 10,11 . The growing 'occupational therapy without borders' literature starting with the edited volume by Kronenberg, Pollard and Simó-Algado 12 describes innovative practice that treats not only individuals but social problems. These approaches may partly map onto community-based practice as currently described in occupational therapy 13 . But many take place outside of professional As occupational science expands its use of critical theories to analyse how inequality, injustice, and disempowerment are socially produced 15,16,17 , occupational therapists may desire increasingly to engage in politically informed practice. Toward such an end, Townsend calls for a critical literacy of occupation so that societies can address the effects of environmental changes on the world's aging population 18 . There is a need, further, for occupational science to study how people actually organise themselves to create social change. A THEORY OF OCCUPATIONAL RECONSTRUCTIONS: SOURCES, DEFINITION AND PRINCIPLESThe theory of occupational reconstructions draws on American pragmatism 19 as a starting point for empirical research and theoretical elaboration. Pragmatist philosophy contributed a disti...

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“…As the 'local' engages with international discourses, institutions and actors, transitional justice takes on different dimensions and produces unexpected outcomes. A number of studies have explored how global ideas get grounded or 'domesticated' in specific 'local' contexts (Conway, 2008;Merry, 2006;Goodale, 2007). According to Merry (2006, pp.…”

Section: Globalisation Of Transitional Justicementioning

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Paradoxes and challenges of transitional justice at the ‘local’ level: historical enquiries in Northern Ireland

Lundy

2011

Contemporary Social Science

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Introduction Locating rights, envisioning law between the global and the local

Cited by 135 publications

References 25 publications

Refugee Education

Refugee Education

Theorising social transformation in occupational science: The American Civil Rights Movement and South African struggle against apartheid as 'Occupational Reconstructions'

Paradoxes and challenges of transitional justice at the ‘local’ level: historical enquiries in Northern Ireland

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