Are human rights for migrants? : critical reflections on the status of irregular migrants in Europe and the United States / edited by Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Tobias Kelly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Tobias Kelly -- The recognition of migrants' rights within the UN human rights system : the first 60 years / Stefanie Grant -- Irregular migration and frontier deaths : acknowledging a right to identity / Stefanie Grant -- The constitutional status of irregular migrants : testing the boundaries of human rights protection in Spain and the United States / Cristina M. Rodríguez and Ruth Rubio-Marín -- A new articulation of human rights, or why the European Court of Human Rights should think beyond Westphalian sovereignty / Galina Cornelisse -- The French Calaisis : transit zone or dead-end? / Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Marie Martin -- 'Not our problem' : why the detention of irregular migrants is not considered a human rights issue in Malta / Daniela Debono -- Human rights and immigration detention in the United Kingdom / Mary Bosworth -- The legalization of human rights and the protection of torture survivors : asylum, evidence and disbelief / Tobias Kelly -- Human rights within one state : dilemmas of personhood in liberal constitutional thought / Linda Bosniak -- Afterword : the struggle for sans-papiers human rights / Upendra Baxi.