The International Law of Economic Migration: Toward the Fourth Freedom

Authors

Joel P. Trachtman, Tufts University

Publication Date

9-30-2009

DOI

10.17848/9781446319789

Abstract

This volume examines the welfare economics, political economy, and legal experience in international economic migration, and on the basis of its analysis, suggests the structure of a multilateral framework agreement on international economic migration.

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Contents

1. Introduction: Toward the Fourth Freedom

Part 1: Normative Analysis of International Migration

2. Welfare Economics of Migration

3. Ethics of Migration

4. International Political Economy of Migration

Part 2: Existing International Law of Migration, Labor Migration, and Trade in Services

5. Customary International Law, Human Rights Law, and Multilateral Migration Conventions

6. Europe

7. Other Bilateral, Regional, and Plurilateral Arrangements

8. Mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services

Part 3: Evaluating Possible Institutional Structures

9. Negotiating Global Disciplines on Migration

10. Toward Specific Global Disciplines to Promote Migration

11. Organizational Structures

12. Conclusion

Appendix A: Illustrative Draft General Agreement on Labor Migration

ISBN

9780880993494 (cloth) ; 9780880993487 (pbk.) ; 9781446319789 (ebook)

Subject Areas

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES; Immigration