Peoples in Movement: potential contributions of migrant rights movements of Latin American origin to the emergence of counter-hegemonic paradigms of human rights- comparative aspects in the Euro-African and global context

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo (Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM))

What are the potential contributions of migrant rights movements of Latin American origin to the emergence of counter-hegemonic paradigms of human rights? My focus is on implications of migration flows between Mexico, Central America, and the U.S, with recurrent origins in indigenous communities, and comparative aspects of these experiences, including an emphasis on migrants, refugees, and the displaced, as integral, collective subjects or “peoples in movement”. Together militarization, securitization, criminalization, externalization, and regionalization combine to define the essential elements of the hegemonic paradigm of migration policy which has been imposed on a global, regional, and national scale post-9/11. Most contemporary migration in this context is actually forced migration and convergent with forced displacement, resulting from a combination of state, structural, and systemic violence.  As a result, migrants are both structurally essential and circumstantially disposable, as African slaves were during the height of the slave trade.

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo has a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Northeastern University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts. He is Research Professor in the Graduate Human Rights program at the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM, Autonomous University of Mexico City). He is currently a SPIRE Fellow at the University of Bergen. Pérez-Bustillo is member of the Secretariat for the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement, and the Mexico chapter, Permanent Peoples´ Tribunal, and has been an advisor on issues regarding human rights and poverty to the UN Human Rights Council. He has written extensively on global human rights discourse and practices and their historical, philosophical, and ethical origins, and regarding the rights of indigenous peoples, and migrants, refugees, and the displaced (“peoples in movement”) in the context of poverty and inequality.
Friday 3 May, 14.15-16.00
(Note venue!) Seminar room 1 (404), Faculty of Law, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1
Poster

SEMINAR SERIES ON TRANS-EUROPEAN POWERS AND THE RE-STRUCTURING OF MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS

Seminar organizer: Hakan G. Sicakkan