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Arabs at Home and in the World: Human Rights, Gender Politics, and Identity book cover

1st Edition

Arabs at Home and in the World Human Rights, Gender Politics, and Identity

Edited By Karla McKanders Copyright 2019
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent. It seeks to raise consciousness at the intersection of gender, identity, and human rights as it relates to Arabs at home and throughout the... Read more

Foreword



Adrien Wing 



Part 1: The Intersection of Gender and Human Rights Norms for Individuals of Arab Descent



1. Introduction. Gender, Identity and Human Rights



Karla McKanders



2.Hijab as a Human Right



Louise Cainkar



3. The Accession of Palestine to CEDAW: Quo Vadis?



Mutaz M. Qafisheh



Part 2: At Home: Arab Spring, Gender and Human Rights



4.The Sources of Patriarchal Authority in the Maghreb



Fatima Sadiqi



5. Media Representations of Palestinian Women



Halla Shoaibi



Part 3: Impact of Gender on Arab Migration and Human Rights Norms



6. Reframing Violence Against Male Asylum Seekers from the Region as Gender-based Persecution



Valorie Vojdik



7. Gender, Islamophobia and Refugee Exceptionalism



Karla McKanders



8. Moroccan Women’s Migration to Europe as a Transformative Experience



Moha Ennaji

Biography

Karla M. McKanders is a Clinical Professor at Vanderbilt University, School of Law in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

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