The paper addresses the question of how to convincingly think of human rights as political rights that would not be left to the whims of national elites: migrants, asylum seekers, the erased have shown that the loss of national rights is, at the same time, the loss of human rights. Through a discussion of "the right to have rights", which means belonging to a political community (H. Arendt), the paper problematizes the overlapping of human and national rights which can result in the production of "statelesness" of people.
COBISS.SI-ID: 750701
The paper discusses life stories, personal narrations and explores their meaning for the analysis of social phenomena, as well as for policy analysis. Theoretically and empirically the article discusses the biographical narrative method that puts the interviewee into the focus and treats her as a “partner in communication” by exploring her experience and expertise. The article discusses the method also in the context of its value for policy analysis.
COBISS.SI-ID: 748397
The paper debates the results of the public opinion research which was applied to study attitudes of male respondents on trafficking and prostitution in Slovenia. The analysis shows how dispersed the opinions are and how they point to the different realities of both phenomena that are related to policies of control and border regimes, that appear as legal or moral questions, addressing issues of human rights, labour market and sex industry. The paper exposes the shortcomings of the paradigm of moralization and criminalization and it points at the inconsistencies of the sexual work paradigm.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1311566
Whereas current policies on migration and integration are beginning to recognise family reunion as one of the most legitimate reasons for “acceptance” by a “host” society, they in most cases still do not account for the growing trend of feminisation of migration, and even rarely do they address specific female migrants’ needs. The paper focuses on biographical interviews with migrant women in Slovenia as a valuable method to question current integration measurements, applied in the article to explore female migrants’ experiences in transnational family life and social networks.
COBISS.SI-ID: 760429
The book problematizes the dominant representations of prostitucion and human trafficking. We start from the thesis that one-sided definitions of prostitution, either as the selling of a body identical to any other service provided for money or as a priori violence against women, are inappropriate. By not taking into account the diversity or the contrasting character of prostitution they help create the one-sided social construction of prostitution. In this book we argue beyond binary logic and take into account many realities of women and men involved in prostitution and human trafficking.
COBISS.SI-ID: 241659136