Shining new light on the UN Migrant Workers Convention / / edited by Alan Desmond.
The UN Migrant Workers Convention is the most comprehensive international treaty in the field of migration and human rights. Adopted in 1990 and in force since 2003, it establishes the minimum standards of human rights protection to which migrant workers and members of their families are entitled. H...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (373 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / François Crépeau
- Introduction: The continuing relevance of the UN ICRMW / Alan Desmond. Part I: Obstacles and opportunities. 1. The politics of the UN Migrant Workers Convention / Antoine Pécoud
- 2. Making rights in times of crisis: civil society and the Migrant Workers Convention / Lisa Simeone and Nicola Piper. Part II. The ICRMW in international human rights law. 3. The Migrant Workers Convention: a legal tool to safeguard migrants against arbitrary detention / Mariette Grange
- 4. Indirect success? The impact and use of the ICRMW in other UN fora / Stefanie Grant & Beth Lyon
- 5. Putting things into perspective: the added value of the substantive provisions of the ICRMW / Athanasia Georgopoulou, Tessa Antonia Schrempf & Denise Venturi
- 6. Working together to protect migrant workers: ILO, the UN Convention and its Committee / Ryszard Cholewinski. Part III: Application of the ICRMW in selected state parties. 7. Universal citizens globally, foreign migrants domestically: disparities in the protection of the rights of migrant workers by Ecuador / Daniela Salazar
- 8. Guatemala's implementation of the ICRMW: emerging efforts / Cathleen Caron, Kathleen Griesbach, Ursula Roldan & Roxana Sandoval
- 9. Mexico and the ICRMW: Protecting women migrant workers / Gabriela Díaz Prieto and Gretchen Kuhner
- 10. The ICRMW and Sri Lanka / Piyasiri Wickramasekara. Part IV: Relevance notwithstanding non-ratification. 11. The ICRMW and the US: substantive overlap, political gap / Beth Lyon
- 12. A vexed relationship: the ICRMW vis-à-vis the EU and its member states / Alan Desmond.