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Perspectives on human rights

A reading list that explores the origins, meaning, and functions of human rights, both as a concept and as lived experience, in modern times and when human rights are most at risk.

Interns, research assistants, and readers collaborated to curate a lists of must-read books on rights, covering diverse topics like refugee laws, migration, racial capitalism, border-making, climate change, and more.

Readers’ Referrals: To add your recommendation to this list, please submit your recommendation through the comment’s section or by email.

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Human Rights Reading Lists

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  • Migration Reading List
    Perspectives on migration: a reading list that might help understand the origins, meaning, and functions of migration, both emigration and immigration, in modern times and where it is made most controversial. Readers recommendations to add this list are welcome to submit it through the comments section or by email.  Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story
  • Human Rights Reading List
    Human Rights Bibliography Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights; from Routledge Handbook of Human Rights, from Routledge Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature, from Routledge Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice; from Cornell University Press Natural Human Rights: A Theory, from Cambridge University Press The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and