Print Rights with a Thousand Masks: Migrant Vulnerability, Resistance and Human Rights Law
PrintRights, a cooperative of undocumented asylum-seekers in Amsterdam, manufactured facemasks during the Covid-19 pandemic; first distributing them to undocumented migrants residing in the city’s emergency shelter system and then selling them on-line to the wider public. By distributing facemasks with a message, PrintRights performatively inhabited the right to distribute printed works, legally resisting alienage law prohibitions on employment. Engaging the theory of Judith Butler, this article analyzes the relationship between PrintRights’ resistance, vulnerability and human rights discourse... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
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York University Libraries
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Schlagwörter: | undocumented migrant / asylum-seeker / vulnerability / resistance / Covid-19 / freedom of speech / human rights / migrant organizing / Jordan Dez is a PhD researcher with the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law at Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands. The author may be contacted at j.f.dez@vu.nl / orcid:0000-0003-2947-6902 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26808639 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/40920 |