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Contributors: Palander Jaana, Vaittinen Tiina, Näre Lena / This paper examines the economic and social rights of lower-paid labour migrants within the European Union. While it is not part of the EU competence to harmonise the rights of third country nationals working in its member states, such developments have recently appeared on the EU agenda. Judged from a strictly juridical perspective, it may thus be argued that labour migrants have gained partial citizenship within the EU jurisdiction. For citizens and migrants alike, however, the EU legislation provides a fragmented picture of rights, and it is left with the member states to implement the law so that the requirements of equality are adequately filled. Coherent implementation practices, in turn, are often lacking on the national level, meaning that the social and economic rights of labour migrants remain lacking in practice. Through an empirical case of Filipino nurses and cleaners in Finland and analysis of EU law and policy, we show that rights remain an empty promise when they are not accessible. The accessibility to rights, in turn, depends on wider political-juridical-economic realities that pure legal or political analysis can account for. Combining the views of a legal theorist, a sociologist and a scholar of international political economy, the paper argues for a holistic analysis of migrants' rights. Here, rights are examined not only from the perspectives of the law and its implementation, or merely in terms of the political processes that make the law, but also through the lived experiences of the labour migrants whose rights are at stake in the political economies of present day Europe. Only through a holistic perspective, we argue, it is possible to claim justice in an era of global mobility.| Aikajakso | 24 lokak. 2014 |
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| Tapahtuman otsikko | 11th International Etmu Days conference In/Equalities in Diverse Societies. Identifying problems, remedies, alternatives |
| Tapahtuman tyyppi | Other |
| Tunnustuksen arvo | International |