Governing the transborder mobility of workers and their labour rights: a multi-actor contest

Rianne Mahon and Nicola Piper

Chapter 5 in Handbook on Politics and Society, 2025, pp 86-102 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Temporary migration schemes are globally on the rise. The trend is reflected in the regulatory ‘migrant management’ framework, which aims to control people's movement to the detriment of migrants’ labour rights. This chapter contrasts the latter with a rights-based approach, stressing migrants’ rights as arising from the actual experiences of the migrant workers and the political struggles to translate these experiences into rights language. Thus, while we examine the role of United Nations (UN) organisations that support migrants’ rights, we focus on the global migrant rights movement's efforts to claim political space via access to ‘invited spaces’ (state-run processes) and the creation of their own ‘invented’ spaces established through their collective action to challenge the dominant narrative.

Keywords: Temporary migration; Migration management; Migrants; Rights; Invited spaces; Invented spaces; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035301898
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