Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration: Protecting the Child-Parent Relationship

Introduction -- Understanding the landscape : TLM in context -- Normative and conceptual framework -- General legal principles -- Article 27 : Is TLM an appropriate form of assistance to parents to meet their children's development needs? -- Articles 10(2) and 5 : Can TLM policies better support the maintenance of transnational child-parent relationships? -- Article 16 : Do TLM policies generate arbitrary interferences with children's family life? -- Articles 18 and 7 : State obligations to protect the child-parent relationship : Securing a place for children's rights in TLM -- Conclusion.

Introduction -- Understanding the landscape : TLM in context -- Normative and conceptual framework -- General legal principles -- Article 27 : Is TLM an appropriate form of assistance to parents to meet their children's development needs? -- Articles 10(2) and 5 : Can TLM policies better support the maintenance of transnational child-parent relationships? -- Article 16 : Do TLM policies generate arbitrary interferences with children's family life? -- Articles 18 and 7 : State obligations to protect the child-parent relationship : Securing a place for children's rights in TLM -- Conclusion.

This book focuses on the neglected yet critical issue of how the global migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children under international human rights law. The work provides a systematic analysis and critique of how the restrictive features of policies governing temporary labour migration interfere with provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child that protect the child-parent relationship and parental role in children's lives. Combining social and legal research, it identifies both potential harms to children's well-being caused by prolonged child-parent separation and State duties to protect this relationship, which is deliberately disrupted by temporary labour migration policies. The book boldly argues that States benefitting from the labour of migrant workers share responsibility under international human rights law to mitigate harms to the children of these workers, including by supporting effective measures to maintain transnational child-parent relationships. It identifies measures to incorporate children's best interests into temporary labour migration policies, offering ways to reduce interferences with children's family rights. This book fills a gap that emerges at the intersection of child rights studies, migration research and existing literature on the purported nexus between labour migration and international development. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policymakers working in these areas.

"This book focuses on the neglected yet critical issue of how the global migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children under international human rights law. The work provides a systematic analysis and critique of how the restrictive features of policies governing temporary labour migration interfere with provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child that protect the child-parent relationship and parental role in children's lives. Combining social and legal research, it identifies both potential harms to children's well-being caused by prolonged child-parent separation and State duties to protect this relationship, which is deliberately disrupted by temporary labour migration policies. The book boldly argues that States benefitting from the labour of migrant workers share responsibility under international human rights law to mitigate harms to the children of these workers, including by supporting effective measures to maintain transnational child-parent relationships. It identifies measures to incorporate children's best interests into temporary labour migration policies, offering ways to reduce interferences with children's family rights. This book fills a gap that emerges at the intersection of child rights studies, migration research and existing literature on the purported nexus between labour migration and international development. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in these areas"--

Introduction -- Understanding the landscape : TLM in context -- Normative and conceptual framework -- General legal principles -- Article 27 : Is TLM an appropriate form of assistance to parents to meet their children's development needs? -- Articles 10(2) and 5 : Can TLM policies better support the maintenance of transnational child-parent relationships? -- Article 16 : Do TLM policies generate arbitrary interferences with children's family life? -- Articles 18 and 7 : State obligations to protect the child-parent relationship : Securing a place for children's rights in TLM -- Conclusion.