The price of rights: Key policy trade-offs towards migrant workers

Martin Ruhs interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam, 12 November 2014

Many low-income countries and development organisations are calling for greater liberalisation of labour immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organisations and migrant rights’ advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. This Vox Talk discusses the tensions between human rights and citizenship rights and argues that you cannot always have both. 

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Topics:  Migration

Tags:  immigration policy, Human rights, welfare

Ruhs, M (2014) The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration, Princeton University Press.

Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association

Martin Ruhs

University Lecturer in Political Economy at the Department for Continuing Education, a Fellow of Kellogg College, and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

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