The Price of Rights : : Regulating International Labor Migration / / Martin Ruhs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Ruhs, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 13 line illus. 16 tables.

Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both. Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well as policy drivers in major migrant-receiving and migrant-sending states, Martin Ruhs finds that there are trade-offs in the policies of high-income countries between openness to admitting migrant workers and some of the rights granted to migrants after admission. Insisting on greater equality of rights for migrant workers can come at the price of more restrictive admission policies, especially for lower-skilled workers. Ruhs advocates the liberalization of international labor migration through temporary migration programs that protect a universal set of core rights and account for the interests of nation-states by restricting a few specific rights that create net costs for receiving countries. The Price of Rights analyzes how high-income countries restrict the rights of migrant workers as part of their labor immigration policies and discusses the implications for global debates about regulating labor migration and protecting migrants. It comprehensively looks at the tensions between human rights and citizenship rights, the agency and interests of migrants and states, and the determinants and ethics of labor immigration policy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. The Rights of Migrant Workers -- Chapter 2. The Human Rights of Migrant Workers -- Chapter 3. Nation-States, Labor Immigration, and Migrant Rights -- Chapter 4. An Empirical Analysis of Labor Immigration. Programs in Forty-Six Countries -- Chapter 5. Regulating the Admission and Rights of Migrant Workers -- Chapter 6. Labor Emigration and Rights Abroad -- Chapter 7. The Ethics of Labor Immigration Policy -- Chapter 8. The Price of Rights -- Appendix 1 Tables A.1-10 -- Appendix 2. Overview of Openness Indicators -- Appendix 3. Overview of Migrant Rights Indicators -- References -- Index