Migrants and Rights

Mary Crock is Professor at the Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Australia.

Contents: Introduction; Select bibliography. Part I Challenging State Sovereignty: Migrants as Subjects of International Law: The human rights of migrants in general international law: from minimum standards to fundamental rights, Vincent Chetail; Nationality and alienage, John Finnis; Being here: ethical territoriality and the rights of immigrants, Linda Bosniak. Part II Defining Rights Across Borders: Making people illegal, Catherine Dauvergne; Travel plans: border crossings and the rights of transnational migrants, Ratna Kapur; Human rights and the elusive universal subject: immigration detention under international human rights and EU law, Cathryn Costello. Part III Family, Gender and the Rights of Children: Migration, gender, and the limits of rights, Siobhán Mullally; Revisiting the meaning of marriage: immigration for same-sex spouses in a post-Windsor world, Scott Titshaw; Arendt’s children: do today’s migrant children have a right to have rights?, Jacqueline Bhabha; Of relative rights and putative children: rethinking the critical framework for the protection of refugee children and youth, Mary E. Crock. Part IV Migrant Workers: At the border and between the cracks: the precarious position of irregular migrant workers under international human rights law, Laurie Berg; Numbers vs. rights: trade-offs and guest worker programs, Martin Ruhs and Philip Martin; The invisible worker, Lenni B. Benson; In defence of the migrant workers convention: standard setting for contemporary migration, Bernard Ryan. Part V Health and Disability: Immigration status and basic social human rights: a comparative study of irregular migrants' right to health care in France, the UK and Canada, Sylvie Da Lomba; Migrating to Australia with disabilities: non-discrimination and the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, Ben Saul. Part VI The International Migrants Bill of Rights Project: International Migrants Bill of Rights, with commentary. Name index.