| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 342 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Rights in action / Patricia Goedde and Celeste L. Arrington -- Legal disputes, women's legal voice, and petitioning rights in late Joseon Korea / Jisoo M. Kim -- Defying claims of incompetence : women's lawsuits over separate property rights in colonial Korea / Sungyun Lim -- "Equal" second-class citizens : postcolonial democracy and women's rights in postliberation South Korea / Eunkyung Kim -- A clash of claims : the diversity and effectiveness of rights claims around the Jeju 4.3 events / Hun Joon Kim -- Advancing human rights, advancing a nation : becoming a Seonjinguk via the National Human Rights Commission of Korea / Soo-Young Hwang -- The constitutional court as a facilitator of fundamental rights claiming in South Korea, 1988-2018 / Hannes B. Mosler -- Rights claiming through the courts : changing legal opportunity structures in South Korea / Celeste L. Arrington -- Public interest lawyering in South Korea : trends in institutional development / Patricia Goedde -- From "we are not machines, we are humans" to "we are workers, we want to work" : the changing notion of labor rights in Korea, the 1980s to the 2000s / Yoonkyung Lee -- From invisible beneficiaries to rights bearers : how the disability rights movement changed the law and Korean society / JaeWon Kim -- The politics of postponement and sexual minority rights in South Korea / Ju Hui Judy Han -- Discovering diversity : the anti-discrimination legislation movement in South Korea / Jihye Kim and Sung Soo Hong -- The rights of noncitizenship : migrant rights and hierarchies in South Korea / Erin Aeran Chung -- Claiming citizenship : rights claiming and recognition for North Koreans entering South Korea / Sheena Chestnut Greitens -- Conclusion : findings and future directions / Celeste L. Arrington and Patricia Goedde |
| Summary |
"People in South Korea are increasingly asserting their rights. They make rights claims in public and via the courts, the National Human Rights Commission, legislative and bureaucratic processes, and international human rights mechanisms"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"This volume began as the George Washington Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) signature conference entitled "The Evolution of Rights in Korea" , held in Washington, DC on April 20-21, 2018"--ECIP acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Civil rights -- Korea (South) -- Congresses
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Civil rights -- Korea -- History -- Congresses
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LAW / General.
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Human rights
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Korea (South)
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Arrington, Celeste L., 1980- editor.
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Goedde, Patricia, editor.
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| LC no. |
2021026841 |
| ISBN |
9781108893947 |
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1108893945 |
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9781108896870 |
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1108896871 |
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