Scaling Migrant Worker Rights

Published January 2023 by University of California Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-520-38445-3

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, meso-level institutions—including 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.

3 editions

Ben Waber reviewed Scaling Migrant Worker Rights by Xóchitl Bada

A Good Overview of Mexican Migrant Worker Rights Organizations

3 stars

This book nicely lays out the complex network of organizations and systems that have developed in the US to support migrant Mexican workers. The changing orientations of the Mexican government to this community is always near the center of these discussions, with Bada and Gleeson showing how non profits often formally and informally coordinate around that center of hard and soft power. I do wonder how much of what has been laid out here has been upended in the second Trump administration

Ben Waber

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March 24

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