Chetail, Vincent; Bauloz, Céline --- "Research Handbook on International Law and Migration" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) [2014] ELECD 172

Editor(s): Chetail, Vincent; Bauloz, Céline

Title: Research Handbook on International Law and Migration

Series: Research Handbooks in International Law series

Topics: Migration; Human Rights; Public International Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 28 March 2014

Number of pages: 712

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857930040

ISBN (soft cover): 9781782549154

EISBN: 9780857930057

Abstract/Description:

Migration is a complex and multifaceted issue, and the current legal framework suffers from considerable ambiguity and lack of cohesive focus. This Handbook offers a comprehensive take on the intersection of law and migration studies and provides strategies for better understanding the potential of international legal norms in regulating migration. Authoritative analyses by the most renowned and knowledgeable experts in the field focus on important migration issues and challenge the current normative framework with new ways of thinking about the topic.

The book examines the many facets of migration from an international law perspective. Topics discussed include the relationship between migration and state sovereignty, the human rights of migrants, human trafficking, migrant workers, refugees and internal displacement. The expert contributors hail from a number of diverse international law backgrounds (including refugee law, human rights law, humanitarian law, labour law, WTO law and others), allowing them to synthesize many different perspectives and present a comprehensive, cohesive and timely study of a complicated and fractured topic.

The Research Handbook on International Law and Migration provides a critical examination of migration and international law, identifying the issues still to be tackled and suggesting further developments to be made. It will appeal to advanced and postgraduate students, academics and policymakers.