Migration and Human Rights : The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights (Paperback)

1. International convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families Paul de Guchteneire and Antoine Pecoud; 2. Migration and human rights: the uneasy but essential relationship Graziano Battistella; 3. Role of civil society in campaigning for and using the ICRMW Mariette Grange and Marie d'Auchamp; 4. Committee on migrant workers and implementation of the ICRMW Carla Edelenbos; 5. Migrants' rights in UN human rights conventions Isabelle Slinckx; 6. The need for a rights-based approach to migration in the age of globalisation Patrick Taran; 7. Obstacles to, and opportunities for, ratification of the ICRMW in Asia Nicola Piper; 8. Obstacles to ratification of the ICRMW in Canada Victor Piche, Eugenie Pelletier and Dina Epale; 9. Mexico's role in promoting and implementing the ICRMW Gabriela Diaz and Gretchen Kuhner; 10. Migrants' rights after apartheid: South African responses to the ICRMW Vincent Williams, Jonathan Crush and Peggy Nicholson; 11. Recent policy on the ICRMW in the United Kingdom Bernard Ryan; 12. The French political refusal on Europe's behalf Helene Oger; 13. Migration and human rights in Germany Felicitas Hillmann and Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels; 14. Migration and human rights in Italy - prospects for the ICRMW Kristina Touzenis; 15. The ICRMW and the European Union Euan McDonald and Ryszard Cholewinski; 16. Annexe 1 ? International convention on the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families; 17. Annexe 2 ? Ratifications of ILO Conventions 97 and 143 and of ICRMW by October 2008.