Migration and Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights

Edited by
RYSZARD CHOLEWINSKI
PAUL DE GUCHTENEIRE
ANTOINE PÉCOUD

CONTENTS
List of figures page vii
List of tables viii
Notes on contributors ix
Abbreviations xvi
1 Introduction: The UN Convention on Migrant Workers’
1
Rights
PAUL DE GUCHTENEIRE AND ANTOINE PÉCOUD
PART I
2 Migration and human rights: the uneasy but essential
47
relationship
GRAZIANO BATTISTELLA
3 Role of civil society in campaigning for and using
70
the ICRMW
MARIETTE GRANGE AND MARIE D’AUCHAMP
4 Committee on Migrant Workers and implementation
100
of the ICRMW
CARLA EDELENBOS
122
5 Migrants’ rights in UN human rights conventions
ISABELLE SLINCKX
6 The need for a rights-based approach to migration
150
in the age of globalization
PATRICK A. TARAN
PART II
7 Obstacles to, and opportunities for, ratification
171
of the ICRMW in Asia
NICOLA PIPER

193
8 Obstacles to ratification of the ICRMW in Canada
VICTOR PICHÉ, EUGÉNIE DEPATIE-PELLETIER
AND DINA EPALE
9 Mexico’s role in promoting and implementing
219
the ICRMW
GABRIELA DÍAZ AND GRETCHEN KUHNER
10 Migrants’ rights after apartheid: South African responses
247
to the ICRMW
JONATHAN CRUSH, VINCENT WILLIAMS AND PEGGY
NICHOLSON
278
11 Policy on the ICRMW in the United Kingdom
BERNARD RYAN
295
12 The French political refusal on Europe’s behalf
HÉLÈNE OGER
322
13 Migration and human rights in Germany
FELICITAS HILLMANN AND AMANDA KLEKOWSKI
VON KOPPENFELS
14 Migration and human rights in Italy: prospects
343
for the ICRMW
KRISTINA TOUZENIS
360
15 The ICRMW and the European Union
EUAN MACDONALD AND RYSZARD CHOLEWINSKI
Annex 1 International Convention on the Protection of
the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of
Their Families Adopted by General Assembly
Resolution 45/158 of 18 December 1990 393
Annex 2 Ratifications of ILO Conventions 97 and 143
and of ICRMW as at June 2009 437
Index 440


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