Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration :
Protecting the Child-Parent Relationship

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Title

Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration :
Protecting the Child-Parent Relationship

Subject

Labour

Description

This book focuses on the neglected yet critical issue of how the global migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children under international human rights law. The work provides a systematic analysis and critique of how the restrictive features of policies governing temporary labour migration interfere with provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child that protect the child-parent relationship and parental role in children’s lives. Combining social and legal research, it identifies both potential harms to children’s well-being caused by prolonged child-parent separation and State duties to protect this relationship, which is deliberately disrupted by temporary labour migration policies. The book boldly argues that States benefitting from the labour of migrant workers share responsibility under international human rights law to mitigate harms to the children of these workers, including by supporting effective measures to maintain transnational child-parent relationships. It identifies measures to incorporate children’s best interests into temporary labour migration policies, offering ways to reduce interferences with children’s family rights. This book fills a gap that emerges at the intersection of child rights studies, migration research and existing literature on the purported nexus between labour migration and international development. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policymakers working in these areas.

Creator

Jayasuriya, Rasika Ramburuth

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70904

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Date

2021

Contributor

Dewi Puspitasari

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Relation

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49631/1/9781000418729.pdf

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

DOI
10.4324/9781003028000
ISBN
9781000418729, 9781003028000, 9780367462994, 9781032037868

Coverage

Routledge

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