Human Rights and Migration

Human Rights and Migration outlines the interplay between human rights and migration regimes in the wider context of trafficking for forced labour. It combines rigorous analysis with country studies from across Europe. The book is divided into three parts which cover migration, labour and human rights approaches. The contributors argue that complex and restrictive migration regimes exacerbate the channeling of migrants into risk groups for trafficking and that some types of exploitation in the field of trafficking are clearly linked to migration itself. They investigate the role of the state in creating the circumstances of trafficking and other violations of migrant rights. Moreover, this innovative volume shows that the current understanding of trafficking excludes large groups of people who, due to their migration status, experience human rights violations on a continuum of exploitation ranging from forced labour to minor detractions from labour standards.

CHRISTIEN VAN DEN ANKER is Reader in Politics at the University of the West of England, UK. She publishes in the areas of cosmopolitanism, migrant rights and contemporary slavery.

ILSE VAN LIEMPT is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Urban Geography at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She publishes in the field of migration, human rights and surveillance.