Poverty : Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism.

Poverty : Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Margot
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2014.
Series:Recht und Gesellschaft.
Subjects:
Canada. > Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Canada)
Public welfare > Law and legislation > Canada.
Welfare recipients > Legal status, laws, etc. > Canada.
Basic needs > Law and legislation > Canada.
Social rights > Canada.
Human rights > Canada.
Citizenship > Canada.
Public welfare > Canada.
Basic needs > Law and legislation
Citizenship
Human rights
Public welfare
Public welfare > Law and legislation
Social rights
Welfare recipients > Legal status, laws, etc.
Canada
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1: Reading Gosselin""; ""1 Reality Checks: Presuming Innocence and Proving Guilt in Charter Welfare Cases""; ""2 But Itâ€?s for Your Own Good""; ""3 Social Rights and “Common Senseâ€?: Gosselin through a Media Lens""; ""Part 2: Social Citizenship and the State""; ""4 Claiming Adjudicative Space: Social Rights, Equality, and Citizenship""; ""5 Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Equality Litigation to Advance Womenâ€?s Rights""; ""6 Welfare Reform and the Re-Making of the Model Citizen""
  • ""7 The “Made in Québecâ€? Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Complex Relationship between Poverty and Human Rights""""8 Accounting for Rights and Money in the Canadian Social Union""; ""Part 3: Social Citizenship and International Contexts""; ""9 Collective Economic Rights and International Trade Agreements: In the Vacuum of Post-National Capital Control""; ""10 Minding the Gap: Human Rights Commitments and Compliance""; ""11 Enforcing Social and Economic Rights at the Domestic Level: A Proposal""
  • ""12 Litigating Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: How Far Will the Courts Go?""""Part 4: Legal Theory after Gosselin""; ""13 Taking Competence Seriously""; ""14 Dignity, Equality, and Second Generation Rights""; ""15 The Charter as an Impediment to Welfare Rollbacks: A Meditation on “Justice as Fairnessâ€? as a “Bedrock Valueâ€? of the Canadian Democratic Project""; ""Part 5: Legal Activism Revived""; ""16 Why Rights Now? Law and Desperation""; ""17 The Challenge of Litigating the Rights of Poor People: The Right to Legal Aid as a Test Case""
  • ""18 The Subversion of Human Rights by Governments in Canada""""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

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