Migrant Worker

Alan Desmond

Chapter 54 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, 2025, pp 319-324 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: An international definition of migrant worker may be constructed on the basis of the definitions codified in the three international treaties elaborated for the express purpose of securing the protection of migrant workers, namely, the 1949 ILO Migration for Employment Convention (Revised) No 97, the 1975 ILO Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention No 143, and the 1990 UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. The evolutive interpretative work undertaken by the supervisory bodies of these instruments has significantly expanded the scope of the international definition of migrant worker, but its practical application is limited by the low rate of ratification of the instruments in question. In parallel to international developments, regional and subregional human rights protection systems and economic integration initiatives have seen the development of regional definitions of migrant worker, often on the basis of reciprocity, that provide for equal treatment of such migrant workers with the citizens of the host state.

Keywords: International labour migration; Regional labour migration; ILO; UN ICRMW; Protocol to the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community Relating to Free Movement of Persons; Right of Residence and Right of Establishment; Andean Immigration Statute 2021 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802204148
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