Scaling Migrant Worker Rights

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How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power

By Xochitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson

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Scaling Migrant Worker Rights explores the complex role of sending states, migrant worker advocates, and local institutions in protecting the labour and human rights of migrants. Focusing on Mexico and the United States, the book examines how organisations like labour unions, worker centres, and legal aid groups strategically engage government bureaucracies to defend migrant rights. It presents a detailed analysis of the challenges and possibilities in creating a portable, universal system of justice that operates through local enforcement mechanisms.
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As international migration continues to rise, sending states play an integral part in managing their diasporas, in some cases even stepping in to protect their citizens' labour and human rights in receiving states. At the same time, meso-level institutions—including labour unions, worker centres, legal aid groups, and other immigrant advocates—are among the most visible actors holding governments of immigrant destinations accountable at the local level.

The potential for a functional immigrant worker rights regime, therefore, advocates to imagine a portable, universal system of justice and human rights, while simultaneously leaning on the bureaucratic minutiae of local enforcement.

Taking Mexico and the United States as entry points, Scaling Migrant Worker Rights analyses how an array of organisations put tactical pressure on government bureaucracies to holistically defend migrant rights. The result is a nuanced, multilayered picture of the impediments to and potential realisation of migrant worker rights.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520384453

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 January 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 5 maps, 5 tables

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 238

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Shannon Gleeson Xochitl Bada

About the Author

Xóchitl Bada is Associate Professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is author of Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán: From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America, Accountability across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America and The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration.

Shannon Gleeson is Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She is author of Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States and Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston and coeditor of Building Citizenship from Below: Precarity, Migration, and Agency and The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants.