Protecting Migrants’ Workplace Rights through Mobilization and Alliances

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

It is widely acknowledged that migrant workers’ rights are insufficiently protected in the workplace, despite ILO and UN conventions that delineate those rights. Nonetheless, there is considerable variation across nations in the workplace protection of migrants. Migrants themselves are political actors who may organize themselves to demand protections. However, given that migrant workers often have limited political rights, partnerships and allies often represent means to advance the rights agenda at the national, state or local level through collective bargaining, legislation, or court decisions. This panel evaluates the conditions under which migrants mobilize, and the political actors and organizations who may contribute their resources to improve workplace protections as well as the effectiveness of these partnerships and alliances.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Cosponsor

• Related Groups / Labor Politics

Individual Presentations

• Migrants’ Labor Market Integration and the Role of Social Partners in Italy - Mattia Collini, Università degli Studi di Firenze

• Mobilizing for Migrant Rights: Precarity, Resources, and Civil Society - Jeannette Money, University of California, Davis; Amy Skoll, UC Davis

• Governance of Low-Skilled Labour Migration in Malaysia–an Actor-Centred Approach - Laura Foley, Queen Mary, University of London

Chair

• Jeannette Money University of California, Davis

Discussant

• Anna Katherine Boucher University of Sydney