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

• Author: Linskey, Carol
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Kalantry, Sital. Women's Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Women's Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India is a meticulously researched analysis and critique of sex-selective abortion policies and legislation in the United States that branches into multidisciplinary connections across a range of related fields. Author Sital Kalantry is a clinical professor of law, director of the International Human Rights Policy Advocacy Clinic, and co-director of the Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School. Her book is vitally important to academic scholars and policy makers interested in the complex intersections of transnational human rights law, women's reproductive rights, immigration, and other concerns where competing human rights claims put women's human rights at stake, as in the case she makes concerning legislation that affects sex-selective abortion and Asian immigrants in the United States. She writes, "In regulating practices of immigrants, advocates, legislators, and even some...