Thursday 28 February 2013 at 14:00
International Migration and Human Rights: Critical Research and Policy Perspectives
The Price of Rights. Labour immigration policy and the rights of migrant workers
Speaker: Martin Ruhs, CONTED and COMPAS, University of Oxford
Venue: Pauling Centre Seminar Room
This seminar series questions the relationship between international migration and human rights commitments. Some migration issues are commonly framed in terms of human rights, such as the protection of refugees, family reunification and the protection of the victims of trafficking. Human rights norms and ideals are also frequently invoked to challenge states’ harsh treatment of migrants, in particular detention, albeit with limited success. Yet, in other contexts, state sovereignty appears to be given great sway, and the connections between international migration and human rights are less apparent. The series aims to re-examine familiar issues in a new light, and open up new frontiers in the interaction between international migration and human rights. The series will bring together speakers from a wide range of disciplines (law, politics, economics and sociology) working on the theoretical, normative and empirical dimensions of these issues.
For more information please see the event website or contact: Cathryn Costello
Interested in this subject? View our Human Rights Law page.
Organised by Oxford Human Rights Hub in conjunction with Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS)
