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The Border Network for Human Rights: From Community Organizing to Public Policy Action
Author(s) -
HEYMAN JOSIAH
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1111/ciso.12035
Subject(s) - immigration , agency (philosophy) , enforcement , human rights , public administration , political science , immigration policy , immigration law , politics , law enforcement , community organization , public policy , order (exchange) , immigration reform , law , sociology , business , social science , finance
The B order N etwork for H uman R ights ( BNHR ) is a community‐based organization in the U nited S tates‐ M exico borderlands, focused on human rights in the domain of immigration law enforcement and comprehensive immigration reform. BNHR has three important features. First, it focuses on the U.S. ‐ M exico border region, the region of most intensive U.S. immigration enforcement. Second, the BNHR uses a base community organizing strategy, as opposed to external activist or service provider strategies. Third, the BNHR has brought the voices and perspectives of border and immigrant community members to the public policy process. In these ways, the BNHR is reformulating political agency in the borderlands and the U.S. [ U.S. ‐ M exico border, immigration, community organizing, human rights, public policy]