This book highlights some of the key issues pertinent to the intersection between the protection of migrants in irregular situations and the international human rights law. It analyzes to what extent the current normative framework provides an effective response to the vulnerable situation of irregular migrants, presenting the case of Morocco. In fact the migratory flows into and out of this country are complex and, in some instance, the asylum issue has tended to become linked with irregular movement. In response to these complex patterns of human mobility, maintaining a clear distinction...

This authoritative state-of-the-art reference collection maps the changing landscape of labour mobility. It explores the dialectic between state sovereignty and market-based logic, which is transforming the speed, scope and scale of trans-boundary migration for employment.

Faced with the absence of a multilateral treaty and of a global architecture, governments today are turning to bilateral agreements as the preferred mode of migration governance to deal with the cross-border movement of capital and persons. Recently, private actors have challenged state regulations to increasingly...