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The price of rights

Ruhs, Martin

2013

Overview

Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both. Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well as policy drivers in major migrant-receiving and migrant-sending states, Martin Ruhs finds that there are trade-offs in the policies of high-income countries between openness to admitting migrant workers and some of the rights granted to migrants after admission. Insisting on greater equality of rights for migrant workers can come at the price of more restrictive admission policies, especially for lower-skilled workers. Ruhs advocates the liberalization of international labor migration through temporary migration programs that protect a universal set of core rights and account for the interests of nation-states by restricting a few specific rights that create net costs for receiving countries. The Price of Rights analyzes how high-income countries restrict the rights of migrant workers as part of their labor immigration policies and discusses the implications for global debates about regulating labor migration and protecting migrants. It comprehensively looks at the tensions between human rights and citizenship rights, the agency and interests of migrants and states, and the determinants and ethics of labor immigration policy.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Arbeitsmobilität / Ausländische Arbeitnehmer / Business / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Case study / Citizenship / Civil and political rights / Civil rights / Consideration / Cost–benefit analysis / Country of origin / Developed country / Developing country / Domestic worker / Economic / Economic aspects / Economic growth / Economic inequality / Economics / Einwanderungsrecht / Emigration / Emigration & Immigration- Political Science / Emigration and immigration / Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects / Emigration and immigration -- Government policy / Emigration and immigration law / Employment / Employment contract / Family reunification / Foreign worker / Foreign workers / Foreign workers -- Civil rights / Foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc / General- Kcp- Kcf- Jffn- Kc- Kclt / Global / Global Forum on Migration and Development / Government policy / Guest worker program / Human migration / Human rights / Illegal immigration / Immigration / Immigration law / Immigration policy / Immigration to the United States / Income / International human rights law / International labor standards / International Relations / Internationale Arbeitskräftemigration / Internationales Abkommen / Internationales Arbeitsrecht / Labor laws and legislation / Labor- Business & Economics / Labour law / Legal status, laws, etc / Legislation / Liberalization / Member state / Menschenrechte / Menschenrechtsschutz / Middle class / Migrant worker / Migrationspolitik / Nation state / National identity / National Policy / National security / Nationality / Non-governmental organization / Openness / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development / Permanent residence (United States) / Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act / Policy / Political Economy / Political Economy- Social Science / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy / Politics / Poverty / Ratification / Regulation / Remittance / Requirement / Residence / Rights / Skilled worker / social and cultural rights / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration / Sociology / Spouse / Staatsbürgerrechte / Steuerung/Regulierung / Tax / Trade & Tariffs- Business & Economics / Trade union / Trade-off / Treaty / Unemployment / Unemployment benefits / United Arab Emirates / United Nations Development Programme / Welfare / Welfare state / Work permit / Work permit (Belgium) / Workforce / World Bank / World Trade Organization
• ISBN: 0691166005, 9780691166001, 0691132917, 9780691132914, 1400848601, 9781400848607