Emerging threats to human rights : resources, violence, and deprivation of citizenship

As widespread environmental degradation threatens the basic human rights of a large proportion of the world’s population, we are also confronting the worst migration crisis in the modern era. Emerging Threats to Human Rights searches among the interrelated causes of these overlapping crises. The editor and contributors to this timely anthology assess how environmental resources, state violence, and the deprivation of nationality/citizenship are linked to gain a better understanding of how human rights abuses intersect with patterns of migration. As some refugees flee violence at home, they arrive in an asylum country only to experience violence at the hands of the native population. Likewise, those denied citizenship rights in their country become vulnerable to human traffickers and other rights violations when they flee. Bringing together scholars of resource dilemmas, violence, and citizenship as well as lawyers and human rights practitioners, Emerging Threats to Human Rights begins by identifying the core causes of human rights violations confronting our world today. Chapters also consider whether and to what extent these emerging threats to human rights serve as drivers of displacement. Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Emerging Threats to Human Rights / Heather Smith-Cannoy Part I. Resources 1. Climate Change, Human Rights, and Migration / Michelle Scobie 2. Right to Water: Remedying Violations by Nonstate Actors / Beatrice Lindstrom 3. Protecting People or Land? Global Trade-Offs between Safeguarding Human Rights and Physical Environments / Robert Mandel Part II. Violence 4. Out of the Fire, into the Frying Pan? Examining Violence against Forced Migrants in Africa / Kerstin Fisk 5. Human Security and the Perils of (Partial) Peace: Human Rights after Cease-Fires / Neil A. Englehart 6. Transitional Justice Mechanisms and Human Rights / Brian Frederking and Maximilian Aviles Part III. Citizenship 7. Deprivation of Citizenship: An Examination of the Rohingya Refugee Crisis / Heather Smith-Cannoy 8. Challenges in Protection: Stateless Refugees and Victims of Human Trafficking in the European Union / Patricia C. Rodda and Charles Anthony Smith 9. The Fates of Survival Migrants: The Quality of Refuge / Jeannette Money and Shaina Western Conclusion / Heather Smith-Cannoy Contributors Index