It is used as a vehicle for social mobilization around overlapping rights such as the right to work, to education, to health, to housing
Hsain Ilahiane

Hsain Ilahiane is Professor & Head, Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University. As an applied socio-cultural anthropologist, his research endeavors deal with an array of themes from small-scale oasis farming through international migration and resource management to information and communication technologies for development. He has carried out his research in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically in Morocco, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa, and his areas of theoretical interest are globalization, development and information and communication technologies, and political ecology.