Human Rights Discourse in Political Protests of Refugees and Undocumented Migrants in Germany and the US

Project type
Third-party funded project
Links
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Methods
Comparative; Qualitative; Theoretical
Research fields
Human Rights Research; Migration Research
Objectives
Networking; Research; Transfer
Disciplines
Sociology
Topics
Civil Society Engagement; Racism; Self-Organization; Transnational Networks
Duration
–
Institutions
  • Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften – Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main leader
  • Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft – Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen partner
Persons
  • Prof. Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez leader
  • Maximilian Aigner editor
Geographical focus
  • Deutschland
Short description

This research project aims at examining human rights discursive practices of refugee and migrant activists in the context of undocumented and precarious migration. It focuses on political interventions and articulations from the 1990s until today in Germany and in the USA, in particular on how political self-organized migrant and refugee groups address and denounce the tension between human rights as norms and their factual implementation.

The project is part of the interdisciplinary Research Group “Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies” (MeDiMi). The Research Group is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The overall project is coordinated at Justus Liebig University Giessen.

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