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ISBN: 984 05 1526 8

Cover Type: HB

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Forlorn Migrants: An International Legal Regime for Undocumented Migrant Workers

By Syed Refaat Ahmed (Author)

Publisher(s): The University Press Limited (UPL)   

First Published: 2000 No. of Pages: 267 Weight (kg): 1

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This book proposes an international legal regime on undocumented labor migration aimed at ensuring equitable, humane and lawful conditions of migration as well as protecting the rights of undocumented migrant workers. In this regard the book analyses the 1990 UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. Also examined is the extent to which this Convention provides for components of regime creation, such as state responsibility, state accountability and the balance of interests, and the manner in which the Convention's deficiencies may be overcome. The study asserts that political will and the overwhelming sense of necessity instrumental in bringing about a negotiated agenda on undocumented migrants is hindered by the extra-Convention factor of unfavorable perceptions receiving and sending states have of each others policies on undocumented labor migration. The study finds the receiving states perception of a disproportionate burden imposed regarding the protection of the rights of undocumented migrant workers, without evidence of corresponding obligations undertaken by sending states to check clandestine emigration, as hindering the ratification of the Convention by receiving states. An argument is made for a consensus, made possible either at the initiatives of the United Nations or individual sending states, by highlighting steps taken by sending states to stem clandestine emigration as incentives for receiving states to assume Convention obligations. In this regard, the study examines the policy responses of Bangladesh, a signatory to the Convention, to the clandestine emigration of its workers to Malaysia and India. The multi-disciplinary analysis in the book is intended for enthusiasts and students of varied disciplines ranging from law to political history.

This book features in: Academic and Reference Books Bangladesh Studies Urban Studies and Migration Law and Human Rights Development Studies

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