Making Human Rights a Reality for Undocumented and Precarious Migrant Workers

Activist and Legalist Approaches in Context

This volume captures the gaps and the progress in human rights protection of undocumented and precarious status migrant workers. The contributors look for developments in human rights law, human rights institutions or governance, and in the organizing and experiences of civil society and migrant workers. In doing so, this volume demonstrates how and why international rights regimes (fail to) protect hyper-precarious migrant workers and recommends what is needed to ‘make rights’ a reality. The contributors are academics, legal practitioners, non-profit workers, activists, migrants—writing from around the world. Effective human rights protection is examined in the context of international and regional normative frameworks; diverse national and transnational contexts; and from the bottom-up perspective of workers and civil society.

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Editors

Jordan Dez

Jordan Dez is an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and US trained attorney. Her research focuses on access to justice for migrant workers, studied from through both ethnographic and legal lenses.

Younous Arbaoui

Younous Arbaoui is Assistant Professor of Migration Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on global migration law, particularly the role of treaty bodies’ General Comments. He leads the Global Migration Law Hub and coordinates the Migration Law Clinic, linking academic research and teaching to United Nations processes.

Title: Making Human Rights a Reality for Undocumented and Precarious Migrant Workers
Subtitle: Activist and Legalist Approaches in Context
Editors: Jordan Dez; Younous Arbaoui
Price: € 141,00
ISBN: 9789048572625
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 324
Language: English
Publication date: 26 - 02 - 2027
Dimensions: 15.6 x 23.4 cm
Categories: Legal Studies; Migration and Mobility Studies
Discipline: Academic - Social Sciences
Imprint: CEU Press

Table of Contents

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1. Introduction: Hyper-Precarious Migrant Workers and the Struggle for Rights - Jordan Dez
Part I: Forging New Legal Paths: The Promise of International Rights Frameworks
2.Breathing New Life into a Dead Duck? Unlocking the Protection Potential of the UN Migrant Workers Convention for Undocumented Migrants - Alan Desmond
3. Promises on Paper, Precarity in Practice: (Un)governing Undocumented Migrant Workers in Africa -Yassine Ben Mokhtar
4.Rethinking Sovereignty through Vulnerability: A Path to Rights Recognition for Undocumented Migrants before the ECtHR -Pedro San Díaz
5.Access to Remedies for Migrant Workers in Mega-Sporting Events: Qatar, the UNGPs and the Case for a Binding Agreement -Laura-Camille Cyr
Part II: Rights-making in (Trans-) National Legal Context: Bi-Lateral Agreements, Labour Law, Regularisation and Cross-fertilization
6.Safeguarding the Shadows: Protecting Ugandan Migrant Workers in the Middle East through a Comparative Analysis with the Philippines - Ronald Serwanga
7.Precarious Status: Labour Rights and Legal Exclusion of Undocumented Afghan Migrants in Iran - Saeede Mokhtarzade
8.Enforcing Undocumented Migrant Workers’ Labour and Social Rights in Austria – Towards an Effective Protection?- Kevin Fredy Hinterberger
9.Cross-fertilization in Global Migration Law? Insights From Egypt - Younous Arbaoui
Part III: Worker and Activist Perspectives: Hyper-precarity and Resistance
10.‘I’m desperate to pay taxes!’: Resilience and Agency of Irregularized Migrant Workers in the Netherlands -Lisa Berntsen, Natalia Robledo Contreras and Tesseltje de Lange
11.Mobile Technology and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Nigerian and Ghanaian Self-Employed in the Bijlmer, Amsterdam - Pamela Ijeoma
12.Analysis of the institutionalized and informal solidarities towards migrant in Tunisia: The solidarity, a way out of humiliation - Fatma Raach
13.Sponsorship or Subjugation?: Legal Hurdles for Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon - Jasmin Lilian Diab