Labour migration management and the rights of migrant workers

Cholewinski, Ryszard; Alice, Edwards; Ferstman, Carla

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“…Report of the Secretary General, 5 April. 7 Cholewinski, Ryszard (2010) en adelante) 6 , para hacer frente a las amenazas que enfrentan las personas y las comunidades que han sido pasadas por alto por las concepciones convencionales centradas en el estado de la seguridad nacional, militar y territorial.…”

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Violencia de género y vulnerabilidad: Estrategias locales para reclamar los derechos de la mujer en México

Estrada-Tanck

2017

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Este texto aborda las estrategias de protección de las mujeres en riesgo de sufrir violencia, realizadas por órganos y organizaciones de derechos humanos en México. Se centra en las diferentes formas de violencia y vulnerabilidad interseccionales y acumulativas contra las mujeres y las niñas, incluso de tipo económico e institucional. Se explora cómo tales mecanismos, basados en la comprensión nacional y local del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos, pueden abordar mejor las vulnerabilidades estructurales sufridas por las mujeres frente a diferentes categorías de riesgo, como las solicitantes de asilo, las migrantes indocumentadas y las refugiadas.

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2017

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“…As Ryszard Cholewinski puts it, the difficulties of migrant workers in many countries of the world when trying to secure their basic human and labour rights, 'and their limited access to legal remedies both in law and in practice, often exacerbated by their non-citizen and/or unauthorized status, reveals a substantive gulf between "rhetoric and reality" in guaranteeing these rights to all persons'. 103 It has been argued in this chapter that the lack of regular immigration status set the stage for a series of abuses and potential or actual human rights violations affecting the day-to-day existence of migrant communities and causing them to live in a climate of fear. To bring human security and human rights closer together and foster cooperative interactions between them would translate into identifying situations of structural exposure and discrimination and reinforce obligations of protection by the state (and other relevant actors) of undocumented migrants experiencing particular vulnerability.…”

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The Palgrave Handbook of International Labour Migration

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Zürcher²,

Fornalé³

2015

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“…Similarly, countries which treat in-migrants (and their own women workers) badly have less clout when seeking to defend their own outmigrant citizens (especially outmigrant women workers). Cholewinski (2010) identifies the feminization of migration (meaning here the increased proportion of women) as one reason why migrant rights have not been taken seriously by the governments of in-migration countries, nor sometimes by the countries of outmigration.…”

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“…Chapter 20 by Sandoval-Garcia, in particular, describes several relevant avenues for this work. Cholewinski (2010) lists, over very many pages, the years of meetings and reports on migrant rights, but can unfortunately provide little evidence of impact. Oberoi (2010) and Lester (2010) fear that the meetings are another form of theatre, for the more general conventions on human rights, if taken more seriously, would already accord major protection to migrants.…”

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21 ‘Women in Motion’ in a World of Nation-States, Market Forces, and Gender Power Relations

Gasper

Trương

2013

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This chapter provides concluding reflections from a set of nineteen case studies of transnational and intranational migration and mobility. It contrasts the 'sedentary bias' present in policy regimes and associated thought centred on nation-states, where movement is seen as exceptional, including normatively exceptional, with the centrality of movement in the processes of socioeconomic change and evolution, particularly those promoted under capitalist systems of economic organization. While market capitalist and nation-state principles of organization differ, they combine in hybrid systems, such as those currently being elaborated in policy regimes for temporary migrant workers, to exploit migrant labour. Many of these arrangements mirror the indentured labour regimes of earlier eras. The chapter presents by contrast a perspective based on principles of human rights and human security that uses a global framework both for understanding and for evaluation and then adds an explicit gender-aware enrichment of that perspective, in order to do justice to the special vulnerabilities and exploitation of women's migrant labour. A human security perspective, in particular, helps to base concern for human rights in an awareness of bodily and emotional needs, of global interconnections, and of the intersecting circumstances in people's everyday lives; but it requires, and lends itself to, gender-enrichment through partnership with insights from feminist theory, as illustrated in the book's various case studies. The systems of the nation-state, market capitalism, and gender power that are discussed in this chapter, that structure the experiences of migrant women workers, are very deeply established. The chapter suggests directions for possible recognition , to reduce and counter the invisibility and misframing of migration, and of women and their work; it also suggests priority areas for research and networking following the format employed for the book: linking researchers, policy practitioners and migrant advocates, South-South-North.

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Labour migration management and the rights of migrant workers

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Violencia de género y vulnerabilidad: Estrategias locales para reclamar los derechos de la mujer en México

Violencia de género y vulnerabilidad: Estrategias locales para reclamar los derechos de la mujer en México

The Palgrave Handbook of International Labour Migration

21 ‘Women in Motion’ in a World of Nation-States, Market Forces, and Gender Power Relations

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