Migrant Workers And Human Rights

Author : Ryszard Cholewinski,Paul de Guchteneire,Antoine Pecoud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139482097

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Migration and Human Rights by Ryszard Cholewinski,Paul de Guchteneire,Antoine Pecoud Pdf

The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights is the most comprehensive international treaty in the field of migration and human rights. Adopted in 1990 and entered into force in 2003, it sets a standard in terms of access to human rights for migrants. However, it suffers from a marked indifference: only forty states have ratified it and no major immigration country has done so. This highlights how migrants remain forgotten in terms of access to rights. Even though their labour is essential in the world economy, the non-economic aspect of migration – and especially migrants' rights – remain a neglected dimension of globalisation. This volume provides in-depth information on the Convention and on the reasons behind states' reluctance towards its ratification. It brings together researchers, international civil servants and NGO members and relies upon an interdisciplinary perspective that includes not only law, but also sociology and political science.

Author : Tang Lay Lee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047408284

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Statelessness, Human Rights and Gender by Tang Lay Lee Pdf

This book explores the developing relationship between statelessness and migration. Migration law is setting the new parameters for international protection. Irregular migration is producing new forms of statelessness. International conventions on statelessness, refugees and migrant workers and international human rights instruments do not provide effective protection for these contemporary groups of stateless persons. The case study of Burmese irregular migrant workers in Thailand demonstrate that women and children are among the most unprotected because of the gendered construction of statelessness. The book concludes firstly that the 1999 CEDAW Protocol is an avenue through which stateless women may pursue redress. Secondly, it argues that it is imperative to set international law limits on state powers over immigration matters.

Author : Ryszard Cholewinski,Ryszard Ignacy Cholewinski
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198259921

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Migrant Workers in International Human Rights Law by Ryszard Cholewinski,Ryszard Ignacy Cholewinski Pdf

8.4 Right to health.

Author : Marie-Benedicte Dembour,Tobias Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136700088

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Are Human Rights for Migrants? by Marie-Benedicte Dembour,Tobias Kelly Pdf

Are Human Rights for Migrants? Critical Reflections on the Status of Irregular Migrants in Europe and the United States examines upon the possibilities and limitations which arise from approaching the situation of migrants in human rights terms.

Author : Rasika Ramburuth Jayasuriya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000418743

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Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration by Rasika Ramburuth Jayasuriya Pdf

This book focuses on the neglected yet critical issue of how the global migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children under international human rights law. The work provides a systematic analysis and critique of how the restrictive features of policies governing temporary labour migration interfere with provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child that protect the child-parent relationship and parental role in children’s lives. Combining social and legal research, it identifies both potential harms to children’s well-being caused by prolonged child-parent separation and State duties to protect this relationship, which is deliberately disrupted by temporary labour migration policies. The book boldly argues that States benefitting from the labour of migrant workers share responsibility under international human rights law to mitigate harms to the children of these workers, including by supporting effective measures to maintain transnational child-parent relationships. It identifies measures to incorporate children’s best interests into temporary labour migration policies, offering ways to reduce interferences with children’s family rights. This book fills a gap that emerges at the intersection of child rights studies, migration research and existing literature on the purported nexus between labour migration and international development. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policymakers working in these areas. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003028000, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Author : Pong-Sul Ahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Alien labor, South Asian
ISBN : UOM:39015070088227

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Migrant Workers and Human Rights by Pong-Sul Ahn Pdf

Contributed articles.

Author : Reginald Thomas Appleyard,International Organization for Migration
Publisher : International Org. for Migration
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056297271

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The Human Rights of Migrants by Reginald Thomas Appleyard,International Organization for Migration Pdf

Includes statistics.

Author : K. Gopal Iyer
Publisher : Kanishka Publishers Distributors
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026578653

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Migrant Labour and Human Rights in India by K. Gopal Iyer Pdf

In This Book The Thrust Is On Basic Human Rights Issues Of Migrant Labour In India And Its Violations At The Grass Roots Level.

Author : K. Gopal Iyer
Publisher : Kanishka Publishers
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8173916152

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Distressed Migrant Labour in India by K. Gopal Iyer Pdf

In This Book The Thrust Is On Basic Human Rights Issues Of Migrant Labour In India And Its Violations At The Grass Roots Level. It Looks At Issues Of Major Human Rights Violations At The Origin In Bihar And At Destination In The Various Industries Of Punjab And Haryana.

Author : Cathryn Costello,Mark Freedland
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191023514

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Migrants at Work by Cathryn Costello,Mark Freedland Pdf

There is a highly significant and under-considered intersection and interaction between migration law and labour law. Labour lawyers have tended to regard migration law as generally speaking outside their purview, and migration lawyers have somewhat similarly tended to neglect labour law. The culmination of a collaborative project on 'Migrants at Work' funded by the John Fell Fund, the Society of Legal Scholars, and the Research Centre at St John's College, Oxford, this volume brings together distinguished legal and migration scholars to examine the impact of migration law on labour rights and how the regulation of migration increasingly impacts upon employment and labour relations. Examining and clarifying the interactions between migration, migration law, and labour law, contributors to the volume identify the many ways that migration law, as currently designed, divides the objectives of labour law, privileging concerns about the labour supply and demand over worker-protective concerns. In addition, migration law creates particular forms of status, which affect employment relations, thereby dividing the subjects of labour law. Chapters cover the labour laws of the UK, Australia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and the US. References are also made to discrete practices in Brazil, France, Greece, New Zealand, Mexico, Poland, and South Africa. These countries all host migrants and have developed systems of migration law reflecting very different trajectories. Some are traditional countries of immigration and settlement migration, while others have traditionally been countries of emigration but now import many workers. There are, nonetheless, common features in their immigration law which have a profound impact on labour law, for instance in their shared contemporary shift to using temporary labour migration programmes. Further chapters examine EU and international law on migration, labour rights, human rights, and human trafficking and smuggling, developing cross-jurisdictional and multi-level perspectives. Written by leading scholars of labour law, migration law, and migration studies, this book provides a diverse and multidisciplinary approach to this field of legal interaction, of interest to academics, policymakers, legal practitioners, trade unions, and migrants' groups alike.

Author : Elspeth Guild,Stefanie Grant,C. A. Groenendijk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351382793

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Human Rights of Migrants in the 21st Century by Elspeth Guild,Stefanie Grant,C. A. Groenendijk Pdf

This book offers an accessible examination of the human rights of migrants in the context of the UN’s negotiations in 2018. This volume has two main contributions. Firstly, it is designed to inform the negotiations on the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration announced by the New York Declaration of the UN General Assembly on 19 September 2016. Second, it intends to assist officials, lawyers and academics to ensure that the human rights of migrants are fully respected by state authorities and international organisations and safeguarded by national and supranational courts across the globe. The overall objective of this book is to clarify problem areas which migrants encounter as non-citizens of the state where they are and how international human rights obligations of those states provide solutions. It defines the existing international human rights of migrants and provides the source of States’ obligations. In order to provide a clear and useful guide to the existing human rights of migrants, the volume examines these rights from the perspective of the migrant: what situations do people encounter as their status changes from citizen (in their own country) to migrant (in a foreign state), and how do human rights provide legal entitlements regarding their treatment by a foreign state? This book will be of much interest to students of migration, human rights, international law and international relations.

Author : Sophie Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000539691

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Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers by Sophie Henderson Pdf

Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent. This book uses the cases of the Philippines and Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive, intersectional, rights-based approach to better protect women migrant domestic workers against exploitation. As accounts of exploitation, gender-based violence, torture, and death among migrant domestic workers increase, the recognition and defence of their human and labour rights is an urgent necessity. The Philippines and Sri Lanka are two of the leading labour-sending states of women domestic workers in Asia, and their economies have become increasingly dependent on the remittances they send back home. Drawing on extensive original research this book argues that these two sending states are guilty of structural violence by sustaining a network of institutions, policies and practices, which serve to systematically disadvantage and discriminate against women migrant domestic workers. The research covers the entire migration process, from pre-departure, through to overseas employment, followed by return and reintegration. This book’s innovative application of structural violence theory as a way to investigate the role of state institutions in labour-sending countries in the Global South will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of migration studies, gender studies, human rights law, and Asian Studies.

Author : Maria Deanna P. Santos
Publisher : Raoul Wallenberg Institute Hum
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556037276201

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Human Rights and Migrant Domestic Work by Maria Deanna P. Santos Pdf

On a general level, this research project concerns ways in which the domestic and international laws relating to the situation of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) are shaped by broader socio-political and economic factors. More specifically, this dissertation examines the human rights situation of Filipina MDWs who participate in Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP). It attempts to meet these objectives, in part, by undertaking a limited comparison of the situation of these Filipina MDWs and the Filipina MDWs in Hong Kong. The comparison is meant to further test and validate the arguments and proposals presented in this dissertation regarding the socio-legal status of Filipina MDWs under Canada's LCP. This is done through an analysis of existing data on Filipina MDWs, and a consideration of the ways in which the relevant laws and policies in these two jurisdictions affect, create and/or perpetrate the status quo in this area of social life. The main explanatory theoretical framework that is deployed is the Third World Approaches to International Law (the TWAIL theory).

Author : Anne Fruma Bayefsky,Joan M. Fitzpatrick,Arthur C. Helton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004144835

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Human Rights and Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Migrant Workers by Anne Fruma Bayefsky,Joan M. Fitzpatrick,Arthur C. Helton Pdf

Examines the major issues in the field today: the theoretical challenges of international protection; lessons learned from the field including Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan; jurisprudential responses from courts; due process issues from Europe, Canada and the United States, and the special needs of migrant workers.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Contract labor
ISBN : UIUC:30112040667740

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Migrant Workers by International Labour Office Pdf