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Migration
Curator:
Debate ID:
95
Bibliography:
<p><a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/ratify-migrant-workers-convention"> Amnesty International. "Respect migrants' rights: ratify the migrant workers' convention." Accessed June 30, 2011. </a><br />
<a href="http://www.notre-europe.eu/uploads/tx_publication/Policypaper24-en-droitdesmigrants.pdf"> Barrel, Marie. "The United Nations Convention on Migrant's rights, a Luxury for the European Union?" Notre Europe. December 2006.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html">Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform. "Economic costs of legal and illegal immigration." Accessed June 30, 2011.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=141601">Daily Star. "Invisible people, irregular migrants." June 7, 2010.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=86583">Daily Star. "Ratify U.N. convention on migrant workers' rights." May 3, 2009. </a><br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/weekinreview/27deparle.html">Deparle, Jason. "Global Migration: A World Ever More on the Move," New York Times. June 26, 2010. </a><br />
<a href="http://www.cfr.org/middle-east/new-arab-revolt/p24876?co=C033001">Fein, Bruce. "Debate: A 'Path to Citizenship' for Current Illegal Immigrants?" Council on Foreign Relations. April 6, 2007. Accessed June 29, 2011.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/05/the_global_immigration_problem.html"> Hanson, Victor Davis. "The Global Immigration Problem." Real Clear Politics. May 31, 2007.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2003/04/10/saudi-arabiagcc-states-ratify-migrant-rights-treaty">Human Rights Watch. "Saudi Arabia/GCC States: Ratify Migrant Rights Treaty." April 10th, 2003. </a><br />
<a href="http://www.fidh.org/Europe-it-s-time-to-ratify-the-Migrant-Workers">International Federation for Human Rights. "Europe, It's Time to Ratify the Migrant Workers Convention." June 21, 2010. Accessed June 27, </a><br />
<a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=141601">Khan, Irene. "Invisible people, irregular migrants." The Daily Star. June 7th, 2010. </a><br />
<a href="http://www.migrant-rights.org/2010/10/01/fact-checking-the-israeli-governments-incitement-against-migrants-and-refugees/"> Migrant Rights. "Fact-checking the Israeli government's incitement against migrants and refugees." October 1st, 2010.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hrea.org/index.php?doc_id=425"> Naik, Asmita. "The Right to Family." Human Rights Education Associates." Accessed June 30, 2011.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.zuzeeko.com/2010/05/finland-and-un-convention-on-migrant.html"> On the Road to Success, "Finland and the U.N. Convention on Migrant Workers Rights: What would ratification mean?" May 8, 2010. Accessed October 13, 2010.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/46e8fc58-cb24-11df-95c0-00144feab49a.html">Pignal, Stanley. "EU faces threat to migration principle." Financial Times. September 28 2010. </a><br />
<a href="http://blog.immigration-america.com/archives/131">Sethna, Farhad. "Immigrants Don't Take Away U.S. Jobs!" Immigration Law Blog. July 9, 2009. Accessed June 30, 2011. </a><br />
<a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cmw.htm">U.N. High Commission for Human Rights. Resolution 45/158 (1990) [International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families]. December 18, 1990. </a></p>
Further Reading:
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<a href="http://www.2008.december18.net/web/general/paper53EurFamilyReunification.pdf">Apap, Joana and Nicholas Sitaropoulos. "The right to family unity and reunification of third country migrants in host states: Aspects of international and European law." December 18 organization. June 2001. </a></li>
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<a href="http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article42902.ece"> Al-Dakheel, Turki. "Torturing housemaids." Arab News. April 13th, 2010.</a></li>
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<a href="http://www.gcim.org/attachements/GCIM%20Report%20Chapter%20Six.pdf">Global Commission on International Migration. "Creating Coherence: The Governance of International Migration." </a></li>
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<a href="http://www.lexpress.mu/story/16167-migrant-workers-and-their-place-in-our-society.html">Subron, Ashok. "Migrant workers and their place in our society." LexPress. October 1, 2010. </a></li>
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<a href="http://www.turkishweekly.net/print.asp?type=2&id=141"> Sengul, Zeynep. "The Issue of Family Reunification and the Symbiotic Relationship between Secondary Law and the Jurisprudence of the Courts: Specific Case Analyses of." Turkish Weekly. July 24, 2006.</a></li>
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<a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001525/152537e.pdf">UNESCO. "The Migrant Workers Convention in Europe: Obstacles to Ratification." 2007. </a></li>
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<a href="http://www.cis.org/node/54"> Camarota, Steven A. "The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget." Center for Immigration Studies. August 2004.</a></li>
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3641612/Counting-the-cost-of-immigration.html">Johnston, Philip. "Counting the cost of immigration. The Telegraph. July 30, 2007. </a></li>
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<a href="http://repository.forcedmigration.org/show_metadata.jsp?pid=fmo:5063">Staver, Anne. "Family reunification: a right for forced migrants?" Refugee Studies Centre. November 8, 2009. </a></li>
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Migration has greatly increased in recent years, bringing into question whether current legislation provides sufficient protections for migrants' well-being, and at what cost. The United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families1 tries to provide a solution to that proposed problem. The Convention was signed in 1990 and entered into force in 2003, and the Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) monitors implementation of the convention. The treaty is meant to ensure minimum protections to all migrants, ensuring freedom from discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, sex, religion or any other status, in all aspects of work, including in hiring, conditions of work, and promotion, and in access to housing, health care and basic services. It also ensures freedom from arbitrary expulsion from their country of employment and protection from violence, physical injury, threats and intimidation by public officials or by private individuals, groups or institutions. The treaty recognizes that legal migrants have the legitimacy to claim more rights than undocumented migrants, but it stresses that undocumented migrants must see their fundamental human rights respected. Many nations have signed, but so far they are all source countries—those that migrants come from, rather than immigrate to. No Western migrant-receiving state has ratified the Convention, even though the majority of migrants live in Europe and North America. Other important receiving countries, such as Australia, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf and India have also not ratified the Convention. This means that the treaty is not in effect where the majority of migrants actually live and work. So, one of the main questions in this debate is whether these specific non-signatories should jump on-board and sign. What actual changes would ratification of the treaty actually affect? Who would they benefit, and who would they harm?
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