Patterns of Exploitation: Understanding Migrant Worker Rights in Advanced Democracies

ISBN-13: 9780197599112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str.

Anna K. (Associate Professor in Comparative Politics and Pub

Recenzje

Patterns of Exploitation is an ambitious book that explores one component of the migrant rights puzzle. Migrants are workers and human beings, yet their workplace rights are not protected to the same extent as citizen workers. To discover why these differences exist, Boucher systematically surveys legal cases filed by migrant workers across four national jurisdictions and generates an overview of the types of exploitation that migrants experience. In contrast to the prevailing notion that courts in liberal democracies tend to protect migrants, she finds that courts safeguard migration worker rights only in so far as workers are protected by the law and the law recognizes migrant vulnerabilities. This book provides a major corrective to our understanding of the role of the courts in liberal democracies in protecting migrant rights and it will be widely cited.

O autorze

Anna K. Boucher is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics and Public Policy at the University of Sydney. She is a global migration expert, with a focus on the ways migration intersects with public policy and comparative politics. Her research also covers gender diversity, inequality, and labor market and regulatory change. She has written three books on migration that cover skilled immigration, gender diversity, and workplace exploitation, as well as numerous articles and scholarly book chapters.