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Women’s Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India, written by Sital Kalantry

In: Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law
Author: Rangita de Silva de Alwis1
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  • 1 Associate Dean of International Affairs, University of Pennsylvania Law School Global Advisor, UN SDG Fund rdesilva@law.upenn.edu
Online Publication Date:
29 Jun 2018
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(UPenn Press 2017)

Images such as the veiled women, the powerful mother, the chaste virgin, the obedient wife, and so on … exist in universal, ahistorical splendor, setting in motion a colonialist discourse that exercises a very specific power in defining, coding, and maintaining existing First/Third World connections.1

Sital Kalantry’s Women’s Human Rights and Migration: Sex Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India addresses a long-existing gap in feminist theory at the intersection of a migrant woman’s experience and culturally motivated reproductive decisions. By recognising the possibility that ‘practices that are oppressive to
Title:
Women’s Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India, written by Sital Kalantry
Article Type:
Book Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/15718158-01901004
Language:
English
Pages:
69–73
In:
Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law
In:
Volume 19: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill | Nijhoff
E-ISSN:
1571-8158
Print ISSN:
1388-1906
Subjects:
Human Rights, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

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