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Migrant Rights at Work: Law's precariousness at the intersection of immigration and labour book cover

1st Edition

Migrant Rights at Work Law's precariousness at the intersection of immigration and labour

By Laurie Berg Copyright 2016
342 Pages
by Routledge

342 Pages
by Routledge

342 Pages
by Routledge
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Public debates about the terms of membership and inclusion have intensified as developed economies increasingly rely on temporary migrant labour. While most agree that temporary migrant workers are entitled to the general protection of employment laws, temporary migrants have, by definition, restricted rights to residence, full social protections and often to occupational and geographic mobility.... Read more

Part I: The Australian Standard(s) 1. Whose Rights at Work 2. Inclusion and Precariousness of Migrant Labour Part II: Temporary Migrant Labour in Australia 3. Keeping up the ‘Australian Standard’: The Regulation of Temporary Migrant Workers in Australia 4. From ‘Worker Protection’ to ‘Protecting Local Jobs’: Six Years of Reforms to High Skilled Temporary Labour in Australia Part III: Unauthorised Migrant Labour 5. The Production of Unauthorised Migrant Workers: The Contribution from Immigration Controls 6. A Jurisprudence of Unauthorised Work in Australia 7. Employer Sanctions against Unauthorised Workers 8. Working with Coercion: Labour Trafficking 9. Getting our Priorities Straight: Connections Between Forced Labour and Labour 10. Conclusion

Biography

Laurie Berg is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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