Synopses & Reviews
This authoritative state-of-the-art reference collection maps the changing landscape of labour mobility. It explores the dialectic between state sovereignty and market-based logic, which is transforming the speed, scope and scale of trans-boundary migration for employment.
Faced with the absence of a multilateral treaty and of a global architecture, governments today are turning to bilateral agreements as the preferred mode of migration governance to deal with the cross-border movement of capital and persons. Recently, private actors have challenged state regulations to increasingly bypass the complexities of their immigration laws and policies. This duality
between immigration regulations and the market-based logic of trade agreements offers the opportunity to conduct a deep examination of the relationship between labour migration and the state-centred regime.
This insightful collection offers a conceptual framework for the development of interdisciplinary approaches to the management of labour mobility - including transnationalism, economics, legal and social sciences. Eminent scholars from various disciplines and perspectives analyze labour mobility issues across the major countries of origin and destination over four continents, with an emphasis on theoretical reflection and empirical analysis.
The Palgrave Handbook of International Labour Migration goes beyond the assumption that states are the only actors in the design and implementation of migratory policies. It maps the field, framing legal and political questions to address the main elements of labour mobility, including the limits and challenges of state action.
Review
"This volume alerts us to cross-border labour movement in different regions in the world and highlights the legal and political factors that underpin socioeconomic dynamics in this domain." - Virginie Guiraudon, Sciences Po Paris, France
"This Handbook is an outstanding contribution to the study of international labour migration. It combines a high degree of analysis with very good case studies of labour migration in different parts of the world. Regions often neglected are included and the political and human rights dimensions are well analyzed. It is an indispensible tool for scholars of migration." - Zig Layton-Henry, University of Warwick, UK
"A global approach to migration … at the heart of present questions." - Catherine de Wenden, Sciences Po Paris, France
Synopsis
This Handbook focuses on the complexity surrounding the interaction between trade, labour mobility and development, taking into consideration social, economic and human rights implications, and identifies mechanisms for lawful movements across borders and their practical implementation.
About the Author
Marion Panizzon is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern, Switzerland. In 2010, Marion was elected officer of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the European Society of International Law (ESIL). Marion's work has been published in American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law, Melbourne Journal of International Law, Journal of Migration and Refugee Issues, Journal of World Trade and Nordic Journal of International Law. Her book publications focus on selected topics of international economic law and include Good Faith in the Jurisprudence of the WTO (2006), GATS and the Regulation of International Trade in Services (2008) co-edited with Pierre Sauvé and Nicole Pohl, and Multilayered Migration Governance (2011) co-edited with Sandra Lavenex and Rahel Kunz. Marion has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Swiss Federal Office for Migration, the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, the Institut du Developpement Durable and the Migration Policy Institute.
Gottfried Zürcher is the former Vice Director of the Federal Office for Migration and Director of the Directorate for Migration Policy, Switzerland. Since 1979 he has different posts held within the Federal Administration in the field of asylum, refugee and migration policy. Since 1991 Gottfried has been Deputy Director of the Federal Office for Refugees, the Swiss representative in various ad hoc and permanent working groups and committees (Council of Europe and UN organisations), and also the head of the Swiss delegation in bilateral and multi-lateral negotiations on migration issues (co-operation, migration and readmission agreements).
Elisa Fornalé joined the WTI and CDM to be part of the on-going research programme 'Markets for Migration and Development: Trade and Labour Mobility Linkages - Prospects for Development?' under the supervision of Prof. Panizzon and Prof. Amarelle, working on diverse topics linked with multi-layered governance, trade and labour mobility. During the work for her PhD she focused on the legal difficulties and human rights violations associated with irregular migratory flows. She analysed the potential and limitations of European migration policies to take contextual complexity into account with a review of the EU global approach to migration and mobility. Building on the research efforts of her doctoral studies, her post-doc position at the WTI/CDM expands her results in two ways. She addresses the extent to which trade liberalization facilitates migrants' access the global labour markets and she is investigating the migration-trade nexus in international law.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Conceptualizing a Pluralist Framework for Labour Mobility; Gottfried Zürcher, Marion Panizzon and Elisa Fornalé
PART I: MOBILITY REGIME PERSPECTIVES: A MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE
1. Trade, Migration and the Crisis of Globalization; Jim Hollifield, Lucie Cerna and William Hynes
2. Labour Migration, Trade and Investment: From Fragmentation to Coherence; Thomas Cottier and Charlotte Sieber-Gasser
3. GATS Mode 4 and Labour Mobility: The Significance of Employment Market Access; Johanna Jacobsson
PART II: DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE: THE EMERGING ROLE OF PRIVATE SECTORS, TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES AND THE DIASPORA
4. Labour, Migration and Development: An Analysis of the Role of International Organizations and Civil Society; Jérôme Elie
5. Public-Private Regulation of Labour Migration: A Challenge to Administrative Law Accountability Mechanisms; Tesseltje de Lange
6. Migration Regimes and Their Linkages for Family Unity and Integrity, and Development; Piyasiri Wikramasekara
7. Mobilizing Development-Friendly Investments and Entrepreneurship by Overseas Migrants; Leila Rispens-Noel and Jeremaiah Opiniano
PART III: LABOUR (HUMAN RIGHTS) STANDARDS PERSPECTIVE: MIGRANT WORKERS' RELATIONSHIP WITH MIGRATION STRATEGIES
8. Low-Skilled Labour Migration and Free Trade Agreements; Philip Martin
9. Evaluating Bilateral Migration Agreements in Light of Human and Labour Rights; Ryszard Cholewinski
10. Human Security and Human Rights of Labour Migrants in the Inter-American System; Dorothy Estrada-Tanck
PART IV: ASIA
11. Labour Migration in Asia and the Role of Bilateral Migration Agreements; Graziano Battistella
12. 'Migration as Diplomacy' in the Labour Migration and Refugee Flows between the Gulf and the Asian Countries; Hélène Thiollet
13. Labour Migration under the Japan-Philippines and Japan-Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreements; Yoshiko Naiki
PART V: EUROPE
14. Free Movement Law within the European Union: Workers, Citizens and Third-Country Nationals; Sarah Sanchez Iglesias
15. The Temporary Movement of Natural Persons in the Context of Trade in Services: EU Trade Policy Under Mode 4 (WTO/GATS); Jan Schmitz
16. Euroafrican and Latin American Bilateral Migration Agreements: The Role of State-Diaspora Partnership; Marion Panizzon, Myriam Hazan and Sonia Plaza
PART VI: AFRICA
17. Operationalizing the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons: Prospects for Sub-Regional Trade and Development; Adepoju Aderanti
18. Migration Partnerships And The Role Of Public-Private Partnerships: The Nigeria-Switzerland Migration Partnership; Amanda Bisong
PART VII: LATIN AMERICA
19. Intra-Regional Mobility in South America: The Andean Community and MERCOSUR; Natalia Bernal, María Angélica Prada and René Fernando Uruena Hernandez
20. Challenges and Features of Migration and Trade Policies towards Latin America; Cesla Amarelle and Elisa Fornalé
21. Comparative Analysis of Migration and Development Policies in Latin America: Joint Reflections on their Impact on Highly Skilled Mobility and Diaspora; Caroline Caplan, Marion Panizzon and Elisa Fornalé