Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration Protecting the Child-Parent Relationship

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
• Series: Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law
• Subjects: Central government policies; Citizenship & nationality law; Company, commercial & competition law; Constitutional & administrative law; Development studies; Employment & labour law; Family law: children; Human rights & civil liberties law; Human rights; Industrial arbitration & negotiation; International law; Jurisprudence & general issues; Laws of Specific jurisdictions; Migration, immigration & emigration; Administrative jurisdiction and public administration; Central / national / federal government policies; Citizenship and nationality law; Company, commercial and competition law: general; Employment and labour law: general; Human rights, civil rights; Industrial arbitration and negotiation; Jurisprudence and general issues; Law: Human rights and civil liberties; Migration, immigration and emigration; Public Law
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• ISBN: 9780367462994; 9781000418729; 9781003028000; 9781032037868
• Access: Open Access

This book focuses on the neglected yet critical issue of how the global migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children under international human rights law. The work provides a systematic analysis and critique of how the restrictive features of policies governing temporary labour migration interfere with provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child that protect the child-parent relationship and parental role in children's lives. Combining social and legal research, it identifies both potential harms to children's well-being caused by prolonged child-parent separation and State duties to protect this relationship, which is deliberately disrupted by temporary labour migration policies. The book boldly argues that States benefitting from the labour of migrant workers share responsibility under international human rights law to mitigate harms to the children of these workers, including by supporting effective measures to maintain transnational child-parent relationships. It identifies measures to incorporate children's best interests into temporary labour migration policies, offering ways to reduce interferences with children's family rights. This book fills a gap that emerges at the intersection of child rights studies, migration research and existing literature on the purported nexus between labour migration and international development. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policymakers working in these areas.