UID:
almafu_9959617752902883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 452 pages)
Content:
The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights is the most comprehensive migration-related treaty in international human rights law, but no major Western immigration states have ratified it. This volume provides in-depth information on the Convention and the reasons behind states' reluctance towards ratification.
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Title from resource description page (viewed December 15, 2017).
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Introduction The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights / Paul de Guchteneire and Antoine Pécoud. - Migration and human rights: the uneasy but essential relationship / Graziano Battistella. - Role of civil society in campaigning for and using the ICRMW / Mariette Grange and Marie D'Auchamp. - Committee on migrant workers and implementation of the ICRMW / Carla Edelenbos. - Migrants' rights in UN human rights convention / Isabelle Slinckx. - The need for a rights-based approach to migration in the age of globalization / Patrick A. Taran. - Obstacles to, and opportunities for, ratification of the ICRMW in Asia / Nicola Piper. - Obstacles to ratification of the ICRMW in Canada / Victor Piché, Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier and Dina Epale. - Mexico's role in promoting and implementing the ICRMW / Gabriela Díaz and Gretchen Kuhner. - Migrants' rights after apartheid: South African responses to the ICRMW / Johnathan Crush, Vincent Williams and Peggy Nicholson. - Policy on the ICRMW in the United Kingdom / Bernard Ryan. - The French political refusal on Europe's behalf / Hélène Oger. - Migration and human rights in Germany / Felicitas Hillmann and Amanda Klekowski Von Koppenfels. - Migration and human rights in Italy: prospects for the ICRMW / Kristina Touzenis. - The ICRMW and the European Union / Euan MacDonald and Ryszard Cholewinski.
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In English.
Language:
English
