Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia in Latin America: Poverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia

The concept of human rights is often deployed by states in defense of various policies, as well by those resisting the impact of those same policies. Using case studies from contemporary Mexico and Colombia, Pérez-Bustillo and Hernández Mares explore the evolving relationship between these hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights.

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Juris Doctor (1981, Northeastern University Law School, Boston), is the executive Director of Human Rights Center at the College
of Arts and Sciences, University of Dayton (Ohio). He is a Research Associate at FLACSO–Guatemala, and a Fellow in the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) at the University of Bergen (Norway).

Karla Hernández Mares, holds a B.A in International Relations (2005, Instituto Tecnólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey-ITESM, Mexico), and a Master's degree in Human Rights and Democracy (FLACSO- Mexico City). She is also an human rights advocate, professional photographer, and a researcher with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Mexico office).