Migration and human rights : the United Nations Convention on migrant workers' rights.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- xx, 452 p. : 23 cm.
1. Introduction The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights
2. Migration and human rights the uneasy but essential relationship
3. Role of civil society in campaigning for and using the ICRMW
4. Committee on Migrant Workers and implementation of the ICRMW
5. Migrants' rights in UN human rights conventions
6. The need for a rights -based approach to migration in the age of globalization
7. obstacles to, and opportunities for, ratification of the ICRMW in Asia
8.Obstacles to ratification of the ICRMW in Canada
9. Mexico's role in promoting and implementing the ICRMW
10. Migrants' rights after apartheid South African responses to the ICRMW
11. Policy on the ICRMW in the United Kingdom
12. The French political refusal on Europe's behalf
13. Migration and human rights in Germany
14. Migration and human rights in Italy prospects for the ICRMW
15. The ICRMW and the European Union
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.
9780521136112
Migration and Human Rights
341.48 MIG-2009CO.2/2.
1. Introduction The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights
2. Migration and human rights the uneasy but essential relationship
3. Role of civil society in campaigning for and using the ICRMW
4. Committee on Migrant Workers and implementation of the ICRMW
5. Migrants' rights in UN human rights conventions
6. The need for a rights -based approach to migration in the age of globalization
7. obstacles to, and opportunities for, ratification of the ICRMW in Asia
8.Obstacles to ratification of the ICRMW in Canada
9. Mexico's role in promoting and implementing the ICRMW
10. Migrants' rights after apartheid South African responses to the ICRMW
11. Policy on the ICRMW in the United Kingdom
12. The French political refusal on Europe's behalf
13. Migration and human rights in Germany
14. Migration and human rights in Italy prospects for the ICRMW
15. The ICRMW and the European Union
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.
9780521136112
Migration and Human Rights
341.48 MIG-2009CO.2/2.