Care, Migration and Human Rights

This book addresses the specific position of domestic workers in the context of evolving human rights norms. Drawing upon a broad range of case studies, this book presents a thorough examination of key issues such as the commodification of care, the impact of the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights on 'primary care providers', as well as the effect that trends in migration law have on migrant domestic workers.

Siobhán Mullally is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at University College Cork, Ireland

1. Introduction, Siobhán Mullally 2. Care or Work: the Tyranny of Categories, Ann Stewart 3. Care Work in the European Court of Human Rights' Case-Law: Beyond Servitude and Forced Labour?, Fulvia Staiano 4. Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK: Enacting Exclusions, Exemptions and Rights, Siobhán Mullally and Clíodhna Murphy 5. Obstacles to Claiming Rights: Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia's World City, Hong Kong, Nicole Constable 6. Access to Justice for Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: the Consequences of Constructed Illegality, Clíodhna Murphy 7. Traditions, Law and Practice: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, Gulnara Shahinian 8. Migrant Filipino Domestic Workers in Pakistan; Agency, Rights and the Limits of Law, Ayesha Shahid