Migration and Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights

Guchteneire, Pecoud & Cholewinski (eds.), Paul / Antoine / Ryszard

ISBN 10: 0521136113 / ISBN 13: 9780521136112

Published by Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Migration and Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ. Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521136113
• ISBN 13: 9780521136112
• Binding: Softcover (Stiff Card)
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Law & Criminal Studies

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Synopsis

The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights is the most comprehensive international treaty in the field of migration and human rights. Adopted in 1990 and entered into force in 2003, it sets a standard in terms of access to human rights for migrants. However, it suffers from a marked indifference: only forty states have ratified it and no major immigration country has done so. This highlights how migrants remain forgotten in terms of access to rights. Even though their labour is essential in the world economy, the non-economic aspect of migration – and especially migrants' rights – remain a neglected dimension of globalisation. This volume provides in-depth information on the Convention and on the reasons behind states' reluctance towards its ratification. It brings together researchers, international civil servants and NGO members and relies upon an interdisciplinary perspective that includes not only law, but also sociology and political science.

About the Authors

Ryszard Cholewinski was a reader in Law at the University of Leicester from 1992 to 2005. He now works at the International Organization for Migration.

Paul de Guchteneire is Chief of the International Migration and Multicultural Policies Section at UNESCO and director of the International Journal on Multicultural Societies.

Antoine Pécoud is Programme Specialist for UNESCO's International Migration and Multicultural Policies Section. He is also a research associate at the Unité de Recherche Migrations et Société, University of Paris VII, and at Migrations Internationales, Espaces et Sociétés, University of Poitiers (France).