Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration

Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration

Company, commercial & competition law

Jurisprudence & general issues

Constitutional & administrative law

Human rights & civil liberties law

Citizenship & nationality law

Family law: children

International law

Employment & labour law

Laws of Specific jurisdictions

Industrial arbitration & negotiation

Human rights

Central government policies

Migration, immigration & emigration

Development studies

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.

Rasika Ramburuth Jayasuriya

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

Taylor & Francis

Andri Yanti

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

Pdf

English

Textbooks

ISBN
9781000418729

DOI
10.4324/9781003028000

ISBN
9781003028000

ISBN
9780367462994

ISBN
9781032037868