Research Catalog

Title

Confronting discrimination and inequality in China : Chinese and Canadian perspectives / edited by Errol P. Mendes and Sakunthula Srighanthan.

Publication

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Srighanthan, Sakunthala, 1950-
• Mendes, Errol
• Srighanthan, Sakanthala, 1950-

Description

xvi, 421 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Actexpress, 1480-4743

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Actexpress.

Subjects

• Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Canada
• Chine > Conditions sociales > 1976-2000
• Chine > Conditions sociales > 2000-
• Chine > Politique sociale
• Défense des droits de l'homme > Chine
• Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Chine
• Égalité (Sociologie) > Chine
• Discrimination > Chine
• Human rights > Canada
• China > Social conditions > 1976-2000
• China > Social conditions > 2000-
• China > Social policy
• Human rights advocacy > China
• Human rights > China
• Equality > China
• Discrimination > China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prosperity at the expense of equality : migrant workers are falling behind in urban China's rise / Wenran Jiang -- The historical causes of China's dual social structure / Gong Renren -- Restoring private ownership of rural lands to safeguard the basic rights of farmers / Wang Keqin -- Changing the policy paradigm on Chinese migrant workers / Cui Chuanyi and Cui Xiaoli -- Chinese farmers' right of access to judicial relief : an investigative report into forest land expropriation claims by Hebei farmer Wen Shengcun / Wang Xinan -- China's war on its environment and farmers' rights : a study of Shanxi Province -- The gendered reality of migrant workers in globalizing China / Chen Lanyan (Lanyan Chen -- An analysis of rural women's entitlements to land and other property / Liang Jianguo and Xu Weihua -- Systemic discrimination and gender inequality : a life cycle approach to girls' and women's rights / Colleen Sheppard -- A study of the legislative inhibition of discrimination on the basis of disability / Wang Zhijiang -- The application of international and regional instruments to HIV-related discrimination in China and Southeast Asia / David Patterson -- Gender and HIV/AIDS : understanding and addressing stigma and discrimination among women and girls / Barbara Clow and Linda Snyder -- Promoting the right to education for AIDS orphas and vulnerable children (OVC) : a study on anti-discrimination? Ma Yinghua [and others] -- The state of life and survival strategies of AIDS-infected rural women : an analysis based on field investigations in selected ares of Henan / Qin Mingrui an dLai Xiaole -- The Canadian constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms : a global template for minority rights? / Errol P. Mendes -- Indigenous peoples and hunting rights / Scott Simon.

ISBN

• 9780776607092
• 077660709X

OCLC

• 302060940
• SCSB-11795937

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library