The price of rights : regulating international labor migration / Martin Ruhs.

Chapter 1 The Rights of Migrant Workers: Reframing the Debate 1 -- Aims and Approach of the Book 2 -- Outline of the Chapters and Main Arguments 4 -- Terminology and Scope of This Book 10 -- Chapter 2 The Human Rights of Migrant Workers: Why Do So Few Countries Care? 13 -- International Migrant Rights Conventions 13 -- Ratification: Record and Obstacles 16 -- Effectiveness 22 -- Migrant Rights, Citizenship Rights, and Immigration Policy 23 -- Chapter 3 Nation-States, Labor Immigration, and Migrant Rights: What Can We Expect? 26 -- The Objectives of Labor Immigration Policy 26 -- Constraints and Variations in the Migration State 33 -- Three Hypotheses 39 -- Chapter 4 An Empirical Analysis of Labor Immigration Programs in Forty-Six Countries 53 -- Existing Research and the Scope of My Analysis 53 -- Indicators for Measuring Openness to Labor Immigration 59 -- Indicators for Measuring Migrant Rights 65 -- Methods, Data, and Limitations 71 -- Openness to Labor Immigration 74 -- Migrant Rights 80 -- Summary of Findings 87 -- Chapter 5 Regulating the Admission and Rights of Migrant Workers: Policy Rationales in High-Income Countries 91 -- Explaining Greater Openness to Higher-Skilled Migrant Workers 91 -- Why More Rights for Skilled Migrant Workers? 104 -- Explaining Trade-Offs between Openness and Rights 111 -- The National Interest: Expected Impacts Drive Labor Immigration Policies 120 -- Chapter 6 Labor Emigration and Rights Abroad: The Perspectives of Migrants and Their Countries of Origin 122 -- Migrants: Emigration, Rights, and Human Development 122 -- Sending Countries: Interests and Policy Choices 134 -- Engaging with Trade-Offs 152 -- Chapter 7 The Ethics of Labor Immigration Policy 154 -- What Consequences Should National Policymakers Care about, and for Whom? 156 -- The Ethics of Temporary Labor Immigration Programs 166 -- What Rights Restrictions Are Justifiable, and for How Long? 172 -- Making Temporary Migration Programs Work 178 -- Summary: The Case for Tolerating Some Trade-Offs between Openness and Rights 185 -- Chapter 8 The Price of Rights: What Next for Human Rights-Based Approaches to International Labor Migration? 187 -- Blind Spots and Unintended Consequences of Human Rights 189 -- UN Agencies' Reluctant Engagement with the Price of Rights 191 -- Reframing the Human Rights-Based Approach to Migration 196 -- Open Debate 199.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.