India was one of the leading countries to implement the initial lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, but still, the lockdown failed and within a few months, India joined the list of countries ...most affected by the coronavirus epidemic. Why did this transpire? What were the reasons abaft this? Where did the Indian government miss? This manuscript endeavors to study the lacunae in the lockdown plans of the Indian Government and highlights the mistakes committed by the Government which caused the lockdown in India to fail and further exposed the domestic migrant laborers to unbearable difficulties. The manuscript argues that the fundamental and economic rights bestowed upon the domestic migrant workers and other laborers under labor laws and the Indian constitution were breached extensively during the lockdown and that the state’s policies during the lockdown worsened the condition of the domestic migrant workers.
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 Rightsshows 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 Rightsanalyzes 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.
Who is meant when people talk about the citizens or the activists? Often, they are implied to mean the most privileged positionalities. Simultaneously, refugees and migrants tend to be seen through ...their (supposed) legal status. Thus, they are neither practically nor conceptually regarded as activists. The variety of intersecting positionings in migrant rights activism results in complex inequalities and power dynamics within activist groups. Solidarities are continually challenged, negotiated, and built. Lea Rzadtki develops a conceptual view on claims, challenges, and processes that activists experience and deal with. She moves beyond dichotomies and engages in transversal dialogue.
At present, migration has the highest growth rates, a trend that is maintained, putting pressure on all states for its good governance. In this context, the aim of the paper is a comparative ...analysis, at global, regional and European level, of the implementation of measures in the areas of migration policies, according to target objective 10.7.2 of the 2030 Agenda, to ensure a Safe, Orderly, Regular and Responsible Migration and mobility of people. In order to operationalize the follow-up of the situation on the fulfilment of this objective, based on the migration governance framework, MiGOF, six key political areas were established, each with five defining subcategories in its structure, followed in almost all the countries of the world. The overall indicator 10.7.2 obtained by aggregating the scores of the 30 resulting subcategories and the six domains constitutes a comprehensive and complex instrument at the disposal of the states, based on which these can identify concrete measures and actions, necessary to be undertaken to fulfil the proposed general objective. The data on indicator 10.7.2 are available as a result of two surveys, carried out in 2018-2019 and 2020-2021, through the international migration module of the United Nations, for 138 countries, representing 70% of the 197 states included in the last inquiry. The application of these policies is very uneven between countries, this is also the case in Europe. The evaluation of the surveyed data, as well as the analysis of migration policy networks, allows the identification of the most important measures applied in European countries, as well as those with the lowest performances, which require consistent revisions by governments in order to achieve their integration goals of migrants.
The developmental migration state Aeran Chung, Erin; Draudt, Darcie; Tian, Yunchen
Journal of ethnic and migration studies,
02/2024, Letnik:
50, Številka:
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What drives some states to liberalise immigration policies while others resist doing so? Why do states expand rights for some migrants and not for others? Building on Hollifield's (2004). 'The ...Emerging Migration State'. International Migration Review 38 (3): 885-912 theory of the migration state, this article explores how the process of political economic development in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan shaped their citizenship regimes and, later, their immigration policies. We argue that the specific patterns of migration management in East Asian democracies - characterised by partially open borders and discrete institutionalised rights for specific subcategories of migrants - is not a reflection of an incomplete liberal migration state but rather, migration control by (formerly or contemporary) developmental states that have historically prioritised economic development, social stability, and national security over democracy and equality. Based on an analysis of archival, policy, and legal documents collected in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan from 2010 to 2019, this article analyzes the emergence of the 'developmental migration state' that correlates migrants' access to rights and permanent settlement with their utility towards national developmental goals.
This paper discusses the link between international migration and democratisation from an actor-oriented perspective on the basis of the mobilising efforts by key civil society actors engaged in the ...promotion of the rights of migrant workers through developing strategies towards movement building and by capitalising on political opportunities that have appeared on the global level. Being pitched at the global level and at organising patterns via the network form, the analytical framework developed takes as its starting point global justice perspectives and then builds upon insights from social movement and constructivist International Relations scholarship. It is argued that what is emerging are (1) movement practices in migrant rights networks which are putting forward increasingly coherent claims that transcend the conventional thinking about global governance and human rights (rights-assuming advocacy); and (2) that such practices are effectively transgressing interstate political arenas (participatory, rights-producing politics). It is on the basis of the cooperation between the 2 main protagonists, trade unions and migrant rights associations, that strategic positioning of migrant rights issues within the global policy debate is taking place, with the aim of promoting a rights-based approach (RBA) to migration and its governance. The combination of rights-producing politics and rights-assuming advocacy is expressed in the RBA to migration which involves the reframing of migrants rights as well as attempts to democratise migration governance in participatory terms.
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BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Sixty years ago, E. Goffman published the first version of the book Asylums, where he introduced the concept of total institution. Since then, several total institutions have undergone ...transformations, but even today such analyses are useful, as the mental health risks associated with life as inmates may still arise. Considering this reference, the article tries to analyse the "quarantine boats", an institution created in 2020 by the Italian government to host migrants arriving in the country, in order to keep the danger of spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus under control in the Italian territory. The experiment has been subject to even harsh criticism, which involved the Italian Red Cross, to which the health service on board was outsourced; in fact, on the ships a forced coexistence is being temporarily created and it has characteristics similar to those of total institutions analysed in the past. The article therefore proposes the adoption of an analytical attitude that does not stop at the surface but takes into consideration various levels, not least that of the role of the psychologist on such ships
Bend it like Britain? Pia Lotta Storf
Verfassungsblog,
05/2024
2366-7044
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After months of parliamentary ping-pong, the UK Parliament passed the “Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act” in late April. Not even two weeks later, 66 persons were detained to be deported ...to Rwanda, and the FDA launched an unprecedented legal action before the High Court, claiming the Act conflicts with the Civil Service Code obligation to “uphold the rule of law and administration of justice.” By seeking to avoid the prohibition of refoulement, the Act undermines both core principles of the rule of law and disapplies fundamental human rights protections. This blog post discusses key provisions of the new Act, the concerns they raise and some remaining avenues for legal challenges.
On January 18, 2024, the German federal parliament (Bundestag) passed the controversial Repatriation Improvement Act which de facto criminalises humanitarian support for entry by land as well as ...entry of minors by sea, land, and air. The German provision resembles both in wording and substance Article 12 of the Italian Consolidated Immigration Act (TUI) whose compatibility with EU law the CJEU is set to rule on, following a preliminary reference procedure initiated in July 2023. While the effect of a pending referral is uncertain, in the current case, the German government should have suspended its legislative process.
This year is the second winter that thousands of asylum seekers will spend on the cold streets of Brussels. More than 2700 of them are still without any material assistance and shelter. 869 of them ...have a domestic court order recognising their right to reception, yet the Belgian government has consistently refused to implement them. This deliberate refusal to secure the human rights of migrants, especially where these are single males, is not only creating a humanitarian disaster in Belgium’s streets but also undermines the raison d’être of Belgian democracy. While the government’s actions have been condemned by human rights experts and courts alike, we argue it is arguably reflective of a worrying wider trend in the EU of the impotence of the law to secure human rights for migrants.
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