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Migrace a potírání jejích nelegálních forem : dosahují neregulérní migranti v EU dostatečné právní ochrany na úrovni Úmluvy OSN o ochraně práv všech migrujících pracovníků? / Tackling irregular forms of migration: irregular migrants in the European Union - do they enjoy the rights contained in the UN Migrant Workers Convention?

The UN Migrant Workers Convention (CMW) that provides for fundamental human rights for migrant workers and members of their families has been adopted in 1990. Until today, none of the EU Member States has signed or ratified it. The EU Member States argue that there is no need for them to accede to the CMW, as, inter alia, the rights contained in it are already secured by other international human rights instruments and in the EU legal instruments. Additionally to the claim of the CMW redundancy for the current EU legal framework, the Member States have several times repeated the fear that the ratification of the CMW could give irregular migrants more rights and increase irregular migration to the EU. Inspired by these two in fact contradictory arguments, this research aims to explore the scope of irregular migrants related human rights protection under international and European law and verify the basis of the EU Member states claims by comparing the scope of rights of irregular migrant workers in the EU with the standards embedded in the CMW. The main research questions posed are What human rights are the irregular migrants entitled to in the EU, based on international and European legal instruments? Is the CMW indeed redundant and unnecessary in the legislative framework of the European Union or is it...

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:326896
Date January 2012
CreatorsBabická, Karolína
ContributorsHýbnerová, Stanislava, Scheu, Harald Christian, Jeřábková, Věra
Source SetsCzech ETDs
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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