Migrant Workers in International Human Rights Law 'Their Protection in Countries of Employment '

ISBN-13: 9780198259923 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 544 str.

Ryszard Cholewinski

Opis

Migrant workers and their families outnumber refugees and displaced persons, but are given far less attention when it comes to the international protection of their rights. Indeed, to be an economic migrant today carries with it a stigma in a word where barriers to voluntary international migration are growing ever higher. This timely work evaluates the international protection of the rights of migrant workers and their families in countries of employment focusing on their economic, social, cultural, political, and residence rights. The book begins with an overview of international labor migration and its relationship to the right to development. It examines the rights of migrant workers as aliens in general international human rights law as well as the specific efforts and measures of the International Labour Organization and the United Nations. The final part contains a comprehensive case study of the multifarious standards adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe and the European Union to protect this increasingly vulnerable group of human beings.

Recenzje

valuable and timely book ... Migrant Workers offers the most comprehensive survey of international instruments for the protection of the rights of migrant workers and members of their families to date ... For specialists on migration issues, the exhaustive research that evidently went into the book's preparation should be especially satisfying ... The book should be widely used for years to come.