Rethinking International Legal Standards for the Protection of Migrant Workers: The Case for a “Core Rights” Approach
The UN General Assembly decided in September 2016 that it would start negotiations leading to an international conference and the adoption of a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration in 2018. The agreement to move toward this comprehensive framework is a momentous...
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| description | The UN General Assembly decided in September 2016 that it would
start negotiations leading to an international conference and the adoption of a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration in 2018. The agreement to move toward this comprehensive framework is a momentous one. It means that migration, like other areas of international relations, will be guided by a set of common principles and approaches.
Given the well-known and long-standing efforts of various high-income countries to prevent the development of a stronger and more effective global framework for the regulation of international migration, there are obvious reasons to be skeptical that the announced “Global Compact for Migration” will indeed bring about any major change. The ambition to achieve this “Global Compact” has, however, created a window of opportunity to rethink the current approach and debate alternative (or additional) mechanisms for protecting the rights of migrant workers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-98afdbc64bd64e7a965240f7b47ecf0f2023-03-09T12:27:10ZengCambridge University PressAJIL Unbound2398-77232017-01-0111117217610.1017/aju.2017.35Rethinking International Legal Standards for the Protection of Migrant Workers: The Case for a “Core Rights” ApproachMartin Ruhs0University Lecturer in Political Economy at the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford.The UN General Assembly decided in September 2016 that it would start negotiations leading to an international conference and the adoption of a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration in 2018. The agreement to move toward this comprehensive framework is a momentous one. It means that migration, like other areas of international relations, will be guided by a set of common principles and approaches. Given the well-known and long-standing efforts of various high-income countries to prevent the development of a stronger and more effective global framework for the regulation of international migration, there are obvious reasons to be skeptical that the announced “Global Compact for Migration” will indeed bring about any major change. The ambition to achieve this “Global Compact” has, however, created a window of opportunity to rethink the current approach and debate alternative (or additional) mechanisms for protecting the rights of migrant workers.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2398772317000356/type/journal_article |
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