Migrant Workers and the Fundamental Dilemma
Author: Valerie Møller
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
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Migration, Workers, and Fundamental Freedoms
Author: Asha Hans
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-03-03
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1000389146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India’s migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration. The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which unfolded in the middle of the pandemic. It highlights how the pandemic-lockdown disproportionately affected marginalised social groups – Dalits and the Adivasi communities, women and Muslim workers. The book reflects on the socio-economic vulnerabilities of migrant workers, their rights to dignity, questions around citizenship, and the need for robust systems of democratic and constitutional accountability. The chapters also critically look at the gendered vulnerabilities of women and non-cis persons in both public and private spaces, the exacerbation of social stratification and prejudices, incidents of intimidation by the administration and the police forces, and proposed labour reforms which might create greater insecurities for migrant workers. This important and timely book will be of great interest to researchers and students of sociology, public policy, development studies, gender studies, labour and economics, and law.
Debating Immigration
Author: Carol Miller Swain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-04-30
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0521698669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes statistical tables and graphs.
Trade Unions and Migrant Workers
Author: Stefania Marino
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2017-12-29
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1788114086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely book analyses the relationship between trade unions, immigration and migrant workers across eleven European countries in the period between the 1990s and 2015. It constitutes an extensive update of a previous comparative analysis – published by Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad in 2000 – that has become an important reference in the field. The book offers an overview of how trade unions manage issues of inclusion and solidarity in the current economic and political context, characterized by increasing challenges for labour organizations and rising hostility towards migrants.
The New Common
Author: Emile Aarts
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-03-19
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 3030653552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book presents the scientific views of some fifty experts on how they believe the COVID-19 pandemic is currently affecting society, and how it will continue to do so in the years to come. Using the concept of a “common” (in the sense of common values, common places, common goods, and common sense), they elaborate on the transition from an Old Common to a New Common. In carefully crafted chapters, the authors address expected shifts in major fields like health, education, finance, business, work, and citizenship, applying concepts from law, psychology, economics, sociology, religious studies, and computer science to do so. Many of the authors anticipate an acceleration of the digital transformation in the forthcoming years, but at the same time, they argue that a successful shift to a new common can only be achieved by re-evaluating life on our planet, strengthening resilience at an individual level, and assuming more responsibility at a societal level.
The Price of Rights
Author: Martin Ruhs
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-08-25
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1400848601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both. Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well as policy drivers in major migrant-receiving and migrant-sending states, Martin Ruhs finds that there are trade-offs in the policies of high-income countries between openness to admitting migrant workers and some of the rights granted to migrants after admission. Insisting on greater equality of rights for migrant workers can come at the price of more restrictive admission policies, especially for lower-skilled workers. Ruhs advocates the liberalization of international labor migration through temporary migration programs that protect a universal set of core rights and account for the interests of nation-states by restricting a few specific rights that create net costs for receiving countries. The Price of Rights analyzes how high-income countries restrict the rights of migrant workers as part of their labor immigration policies and discusses the implications for global debates about regulating labor migration and protecting migrants. It comprehensively looks at the tensions between human rights and citizenship rights, the agency and interests of migrants and states, and the determinants and ethics of labor immigration policy.
Demanding Rights
Author: Moritz Baumgärtel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1108496490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvaluates and reconsiders how the human rights of vulnerable migrants are protected through Europe's supranational courts.
Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe
Author: Sarah Spencer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-05-20
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 3030343243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book explores the conceptual challenges posed by the presence of migrants with irregular immigration status in Europe and the evolving policy responses at European, national and municipal level. It addresses the conceptual and policy issues raised, post-entry, by this particular section of the migrant population. Drawing on evidence from different parts of Europe, the book takes the reader through philosophical and ethical dilemmas, legal and sociological analysis to questions of public policy and governance before addressing the concrete ways in which those questions are posed in current policy agendas from the international to the local level. As such this book is a valuable read to researchers, practitioners and policy makers as well as to students working on irregular migration in Europe in a comparative and/or country based perspective.
Asian Labour Migration
Author: Piyasiri Wickramasekara (migration.)
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
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Author: Bill Jordan
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a theoretical framework for the analysis of mobility and border crossing in an age of globalization. Focuses on people working in the UK without proper immigration status, the organizations that support immigrants, and the responses of control agencies and public services.
