Penelope Mathew

Reworking the Relationship between Asylum and Employment

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the extent to which the right to work for refugees and asylum-seekers is protected by international human rights law. This book explores the legal position looking at the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as well as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The book also considers whether countries are prevented under customary international law and its prohibition against torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, from consigning refugees and asylum-seekers to destitution through discriminatory denial of the rights to social support and work. The book argues that both refugees and asylum-seekers have the human right to work, and situates the law in the context of broader economic, philosophical and political debates about sovereign control of immigration and the right to work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780415580793
• ISBN-10: 041558079X
• Artikelnr.: 31302046

Autorenporträt

Penelope Mathew holds the Freilich Foundation Chair at the Australian National University. Her primary research interests are international law, human rights law, refugee law and feminist theory. She has published widely in the area of refugee law.

Inhaltsangabe

1. True Refugee Stories - Getting out of Danger, Getting in to a Place of
Safety, and Getting Work 2. The Development of Legal Protection for
Employment 3. Migration and the 'Sovereign Prerogative' over Entry 4. The
Refugee Convention: When do Rights Attach? 5. The Covenant's Protection for
the Right to Work: Limited Obligations? 6. Equality Norms and the Right to
Work: ICERD as a Case Study 7. Regional Treaties Protecting the Right to
Work 8. Other Relevent human rights - Equality, Dignity and Interdependence
9. Conclusions - The Fulfilment of Work