507 - Section on Human Rights Paper Session. Human Rights, Social Policy, and the State

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

It is common for sociologists to examine the formulation of rights-claims by social movements and/or the role of NGOs and UN agencies in echoing such claims. This panel explores the complex relations between rights-claims (whether advanced at the local or the global level) and social policy (implemented at the level of the nation-state). How do rights-claims influence social policy? The panel examines the translation process through which rights-claims find expression in social policy.

Sub Unit

• Section on Human Rights / Human Rights, Social Policy, and the State

Session Organizer

• Mark Frezzo, University of Mississippi

Presider

• Mark Frezzo, University of Mississippi

Individual Presentations

• Arrested Solidarity: Obstacles to Inter-Movement Support for LGBT Rights in Malawi - Ashley Currier, University of Cincinnati

• Calling out the State: Southeast Europe, Human Rights, and Gender-based Violence - Susan C. Pearce, East Carolina University

• Redress for Victims of Terrorism: The Right to Reparations in the War on Terror - Erika Mae Lorenzana Del Villar, University of Connecticut

• Social Innovations in Housing Policy in Spain - LIVIU CATALIN MARA, University of Barcelona