Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era

In the global era, controversies abound over temporary labour migration; however, it has not previously been subjected to a sustained socio-legal analysis on a comparative basis, critiquing the underpinning concepts conventionally accepted as fundamental in this area. This collection of essays aims to fill that void. Complex regulatory challenges arise from temporary labour migration. This collection examines these challenges and the extent to which temporary labour migration programmes can be ethical, equitable and efficacious and so deliver decent work for workers. Whilst the tendency for migration law to divide labour law's worker-protective mission has been observed before, the authors of the chapters comprising this collection seek not only to interrogate why and how this is so, but to go further in examining the implications and effects of a wide range of regulatory mechanisms on temporary labour migration.

Auteur

Joanna Howe is Senior Lecturer and Rosemary Owens is Emerita Professor, both at the University of Adelaide.

Contenu

Part I: Introduction

1. Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era: The Regulatory Challenges
   Joanna Howe and Rosemary Owens
   Part II: Global Economic Integration and the Regulation of Temporary Labour Migration
2. Seasonal Workers and Intra-corporate Transferees in EU Law: Capital's Handmaidens?
   Cathryn Costello and Mark Freedland
3. Temporary Labour Migration and the Trade in Services: European and Global Perspectives in an Age of
   Economic Integration
   Samuel Engblom, Nicola Kountouris and Åsa Odin Ekman
4. The Distinction Between Temporary Labour Migration and Posted Work in Austria: Labour Law versus Trade Law
   Gudrun Biffl and Isabella Skrivanek
   Part III: Temporary Labour Migration in Pursuit of Economic Efficiency
5. Employer Demand for 'Skilled' Migrant Workers: Regulating Admission Under the United Kingdom's
   Tier 2 (General) Visa
   Mimi Zou
6. Contesting the Demand-Driven Orthodoxy: An Assessment of the Australian Regulation of Temporary Labour Migration
   Joanna Howe
   Part IV: Temporary Labour Migration and the Production of Precarity
7. Migrant Domestic Workers in British Columbia, Canada: Unfreedom, Trafficking and Domestic Servitude
   Judy Fudge
8. Why is Labour Protection for Temporary Migrant Workers so Fraught?: A Perspective from Australia
   Joo-Cheong Tham, Iain Campbell and Martina Boese
   Part V: Challenges in Realising Decent Work for Temporary Migrant Workers
9. Empowering Temporary Migrant Workers in Sweden: A Call for Unequal Treatment
   Petra Herzfeld Olsson
10. Temporary Labour Migration and Modern Slavery
    Virginia Mantouvalou
11. The Regulation of Temporary Immigration as Part of New Forms of the Supply Chain: Segmenting Labour
    Rights For Workers
    Julia López López
12. Regulating Temporariness in Italian Migration Law
    Veronica Papa
    Part VI: Contesting Temporariness: Status and the Social Effects of the Legal Regulation of Temporary Labour Migration
13. The Membership of Migrant Workers and the Ethical Limits of Exclusion
    Alexander Reilly
14. Protecting the Rights of Temporary Migrant Workers: Ideals versus Reality
    Martin Ruhs
    Part VII: The Global Challenge of Temporary Labour Migration: Regulatory Responses and Possibilities
15. Roles for Workers and Unions in Regulating Labour Recruitment in Mexico
    Jennifer Gordon
16. Decent Labour Standards in Corporate Supply Chains: The Immokalee Workers Model
    James J Brudney
17. Reducing Worker-Paid Migration Costs
    Philip Martin
18. Temporary Labour Migration and Workplace Rights in Australia: Is Effective Enforcement Possible?
    Rosemary Owens