Twentieth Century Forcible Child Transfers : Probing the Boundaries of the Genocide Convention.

This book focuses on the gap between genocide as a legal term and genocidal forcible child transfer as a catastrophic experience that disrupts a group's continuity. It argues for the need to add an Amending Protocol to the Genocide Convention in order to provide protection from forcible transfe...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Amir, Ruth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington Books, 2018
Subjects:
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Twentieth Century Forcible Child Transfers; Twentieth Century Forcible Child Transfers: Probing the Boundaries of the Genocide Convention; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Genocidal Forcible Child Transfer; Chapter 1; Genocide; The Foundations of the Crime of Genocide; Genocide as a Crime under International Law; From a New Conception to the UN Convention; Interpretive Debates over the UNGC; Notes; Chapter 2; The Forcible Transfer Clause; The FTC: Ethical Uniqueness; The FTC: Legislative History; Forcible Child Transfers: Interpretations
  • Children as a Protected GroupConcluding Arguments; Notes; Historical Cases; Chapter 3; Forcible Child Transfers; Genocide and Colonialism; The Ideological Apparatus: The Progress Narrative and Civilization; The Construction and Problematization of Indigenous Peoples; Forcible Child Transfers: The United States, Canada, and Australia; Concluding Arguments; Notes; Chapter 4; Forcible Transfer of Immigrant Children; The First Mass Immigration to Israel 1948-1951; The Ideological Apparatus: The Melting Pot; The Construction and Problematization of Yemeni Jews; The Intent to Destroy
  • The Forcible TransferNotes; Chapter 5; Forcible Transfers of Republican Children in Spain; The Origins of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; The Civil War and Emergence of Francoism; The Ideological Apparatus; The Construction and Problematization of the Republicans; The Intent to Destroy; The Forcible Transfer; Notes; Conclusion; Chapter 6; Genocide of Political Groups and Forcible Child Transfers; The UNGC Exclusion of Political Groups; Expanding the UNGC Scope: Political Groups; Operation Peter Pan in Cuba; Notes; What We Have Learned from History?; The Proposed Protocol
  • Where Do We Go from Here?Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author