Migrant Rights, Immigration Policy and Human Development

Martin Ruhs ()
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Martin Ruhs: ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford

No HDRP-2009-23, Human Development Research Papers (2009 to present) from Human Development Report Office (HDRO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Abstract: This paper explores the potential impacts of the rights of migrant workers (“migrant rights”) on the human development of actual and potential migrants, their families, and other people in migrants’ countries of origin. A key feature of the paper is its consideration of how migrant rights affect both the capability to move and work in higher income countries (i.e. the access of workers in low-income countries to labour markets of higher-income countries) and capabilities while living and working abroad. The paper suggests that there may be a trade-off between the number and some of the rights of low-skilled migrants admitted to high-income countries and explores the implications for human development.

Keywords: Migrant rights; immigration policy; human development; global labor markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E6 F22 O1 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2009-04, Revised 2009-04
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Published as background research for the 2009 Human Development Report.

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