Rights with Capabilities: Towards a Social Justice Framework for Migrant Activism

Authors

  • Leah Briones Flinders University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v5i1.995

Keywords:

social justice, gender, migration

Abstract

The paradigm of rights, established throughout the academic, policy and migrant activism arenas, governs the protection of vulnerable migrant workers against abuse. To what extent this approach has achieved social justice for the migrant worker in the current global political economy climate is, however, uncertain. In analyzing the use of rights in migrant activism in Hong Kong, this paper shows the limitation of rights  in the migrant experience at the same time as it shows how a new paradigm based on the Capablities Approach could provide a more appropriate framework from which to achieve social justice for the migrant worker.

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Published

2011-07-21

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Life Value and Social Justice

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