Women's Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India

by Sital Kalantry

Book Overview

Some of the most hotly contested international women's rights issues today arise from the movement of peoples from one country to another and the practices they purportedly bring with them. In Women's Human Rights and Migration, Sital Kalantry focuses on immigrants of Asian descent living in the United States who are believed to abort female fetuses because they do not want a female child. While sex-selective abortion is a human rights concern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224933X
• ISBN13: 9780812249330
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"