Magical legalism: human rights practitioners and undocumented migrants in Mexico

Treviño‐Rangel, Javier

doi:10.1080/13642987.2017.1314649

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“…Javier Trevino-Rangel's article 'Magical Legalism: Human Rights Practitioners and Undocumented Migrants in Mexico' 85 also shows the pitfalls of (thick) legalistic 'solutions' to human rights problems in his investigation into how human rights practitioners and rights-based organisations in Mexico talk about the suffering and violence routinely experienced by transmigrants. His work is located within the top-right of the process/outcomes axis.…”

Section: The Process/outcomes Axismentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond ‘rights-based approaches’? Employing a process and outcomes framework

Miller

Redhead

2019

The International Journal of Human Rights

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The protection and promotion of human rights is experiencing increased commitment around the globe. Many organisations, groups and movements have strategically employed 'rights-based' agendas in order to advance issues and accomplish particular objectives. However, despite this ongoing mainstreaming and dominance, there is little time to reflect on the efficacy, sustainability and shortcomings of taking rights-based approaches. In this introduction to the volume 'Beyond 'rights-based approaches'?' we think critically aboutand beyond-'rights-based' approaches. As part of our review of the existing literatures (which we organise around three key waves in rights-based focused research), we introduce new research that seeks transformative solutions to systemic patterns of injustice, while considering the real changes in peoples' lives. Central to our discussion is the proposal and then the deployment of a new framework, based on a 'process/ outcome axis'. From this vantage point we identify and discuss how our contributors challenge the prevailing assumptions and practices in the fight for human dignity, by addressing the gap between theory and practice, and between scholars, activists and practitioners.

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Section: The Process/outcomes Axismentioning

confidence: 99%