Law as weapon of the weak? A comparative analysis of legal mobilization by Roma and women's groups at the European level

Jacquot, Sophie; Vitale, Tommaso

doi:10.1080/13501763.2014.887138

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“…A more recent analysis of litigation strategies around Roma equality and gender equality (Jacquot & Vitale 2015), on the other hand, confirms the observation that the separated structure of the lobby groups by-and-large results in compartmentalised anti-discrimination analysis. The European Women's Lobby is portrayed as following the development of the EU gen- Copyright © FrancoAngeli N.B: Copia ad uso personale.…”

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Revisiting intersectionality for EU anti-discrimination law in an economic crisis - A critical legal studies perspective

Schiek

2016

Sociologia Del Diritto

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Revisiting intersectionality for EU anti-discrimination law in an economic crisis - A critical legal studies perspective

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Sociologia Del Diritto

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“…At the national level, the law can open up opportunities for social movements to structure themselves in order to claim a right, or to influence policy-making. Rights then act as a source of identity and legitimacy, and can open up possibilities for collective action (Bo Nielsen 2015;Jacquot and Vitale 2014;Kay 2011). At the international level, the existence of conventions and norms can be an efficient way for social movements to become more visible, capture resources or force non-responsive states to adapt national laws (Keck and Sikkink 1998;Sikkink 2005).…”

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Decolonising Labour, Reclaiming Subaltern Epistemologies: Brazilian Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labour Rights

Acciari

2019

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This study explores the labour rights discourse produced by Brazilian domestic workers. It shows that the 2015 Brazilian legislation which extended labour rights to domestic workers was not simply a ‘boomerang effect’ of ILO Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers, or a case of the ‘vernacularisation’ of global rights. Indeed, domestic workers have agitated for equal labour rights since 1936, and articulated the specific rights contained in the new legislation decades before their institutional recognition. Therefore, rather than being an instance of the translation of pre-existing global frameworks at the local level, the case of domestic workers demonstrates the ability of subaltern groups to transnationalise their demands, suggesting that the global South should not be conceived only as a place of rights reception, but also as a place of rights production. In this context, I trace the genealogy of the labour rights discourse as imagined and mobilised by domestic workers in Brazil, and examine the ways in which they have travelled between their subaltern location, the Brazilian state and the international agenda about ‘decent work.’

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“…These reflections, which attempt to problematize the existing debate rather than resulting in any strong "taking of position" on the desirability or not of ERI, are based on qualitative analysis, and the empirical material they build upon has been gathered according to the principle of triangulation between secondary sources (legal and policy 20 Some see in these recent multinational projects that attempt to bridge the European level and national governments on Roma inclusion the weakening of the ERTF (Jacquot & Vitale, 2014). 21 For information on the National Roma Integration Strategies, see "EU and Roma" at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/discrimination/roma/index_en.htm.…”

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Cultural Institutions as a Combat Sport. Reflections on the European Roma Institute

Magazzini

2016

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Abstract:This article aims at problematizing the relation between identity recognition, economic redistribution, and political representation in the debate around Roma inclusion in contemporary Europe. Given that culture has increasingly become politicized, by analyzing the emergence of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture I reflect on the political and economic potential and drawbacks that cultural identity holds in a European society in which capitalism has turned into a cultural trait.

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Law as weapon of the weak? A comparative analysis of legal mobilization by Roma and women's groups at the European level

Cited by 49 publications

References 34 publications

Revisiting intersectionality for EU anti-discrimination law in an economic crisis - A critical legal studies perspective

Revisiting intersectionality for EU anti-discrimination law in an economic crisis - A critical legal studies perspective

Decolonising Labour, Reclaiming Subaltern Epistemologies: Brazilian Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labour Rights

Cultural Institutions as a Combat Sport. Reflections on the European Roma Institute

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