Scaling migrant worker rights : how advocates collaborate and contest state power / Xóchitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson

Includes bibliographical references and index

Constructing portable rights for migrant workers -- Mapping the Mexican consulate network as an advocacy institution -- The sending state and co-enforcement : Mexico's role in brokering immigrant worker claimsmaking -- Advocacy and accountability in state-civil society relations -- The strategies of transnational labor coalitions and networks -- Conclusion -- Appendix : list of key institutional actors in transnational labor regulation and consular affairs

"As international migration continues to rise, sending states play an integral part in "managing" their diasporas, in some cases even stepping in to protect their citizens' labor and human rights in receiving states. At the same time, institutions such as labor unions, worker centers, legal aid groups, and other immigrant advocates are among the most visible actors holding governments of immigrant destinations accountable at the local level. The potential for a functional immigrant worker rights regime, therefore, advocates to imagine a portable, universal system of justice and human rights, while simultaneously leaning on the bureaucratic minutiae of local enforcement. Taking Mexico and the United States as entry points, Scaling Migrant Worker Rights analyzes how an array of organizations put tactical pressure on government bureaucracies to holistically defend migrant rights. The result is a nuanced, multilayered picture of the impediments to and potential realization of migrant worker rights"-- Provided by publisher