OUVRAGE : F. Staiano, G. Ciliberto (eds.), Labour migration in the time of COVID-19: inequalities and perspectives for change

Fulvia STAIANO, Giulia CILIBERTO

Since 2015, the Institute for Research in Innovation and Services for the Development of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRISS) promotes projects on ‘Migration and Development’ with the view of offering innovative tools for sustainable migration.

The timely volume edited by Giulia Ciliberto, post-doc research fellow of the Institute, and Fulvia Staiano, Associate Professor of International Law at the University ‘Giustino Fortunato’ and Associate to CNR-IRISS, on Labour Migration in the Time of COVID-19: Inequalities and Perspectives for Change offers a wide and in-depth analysis of the consequences that migrant workers are facing in these days: as a vulnerable group, they have to cope with an unpredictable and exceptional situation – COVID-19 pandemics – adding elements of weakness to their already fragile state.

The idea of collecting some papers came to the mind of the Editors during the planning of the first edition of the Summer School on Labour Migration in the European Union (www.eulab.unina.it), organised by the Law Department of University of Naples Federico II.

The result of their project are under your eyes. The rationale of the volume and the way in which its preparation have been carried out is a ‘good practice’ that I would recommend for future initiatives.
CNR-IRISS will continue its co-operation with the Law Department of the University Federico II, and encourage further partnership with Italian and International institutions.

Giovanni Carlo Bruno, Foreword

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of contributors
Foreword, Giovanni Carlo Bruno
Preface, Giulia Ciliberto, Fulvia Staiano
 

PART I. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 

1. Matteo Borzaga, Michele Mazzetti, Migrant Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Gap in Human Rights Protection?
2. Maria Giovanna Brancati, Human Trafficking for Labour Exploitation in the Pandemic Global Scenario: Beyond Criminal Law through Prevention in Businesses’ Accountability and Healthcare
3. Tatiana Cardoso Squeff, Antonio Teixeira Junqueira Neto, Laura Mourão Nicoli, The role of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants on the supervision of the conducts of States during the COVID-19 pandemic and its effectiveness

PART II. SPECIFIC CATEGORIES OF MIGRANT WORKERS 

4. Jacqueline F. Espenilla, Seafaring in the Time of COVID-19: Understanding Protection Gaps for the Ocean’s Invisible Workforce
5. Zoe Nutter, The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Posted Workers: Exposing the Tension Between Strong Market Imperatives and Fragile Worker Protections
6. Annalisa Geraci, The “Pandemic Compromise”: the Breaking Down of Barriers for Migrant Farm Workers in order not to Damage the Agricultural Sector. What Effects on the Protection of Migrant Workers?

PART III. REGIONAL AND NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 

7. Saidatul Nadia Abd Aziz, Usanee Aimsiranun, Managing Migrant Workers in Plight of the Pandemic COVID-19: Comparing Regional Integration Challenges, Rights and Legal Protection in ASEAN and the European Union
8. Nguyen Thi Hong Yen, Nguyen Phuong Dung, Labour Migration and Challenges amidst the COVID-19 Outbreak: Analysing the case of Vietnam
9. Poonam Sharma, The Impact of Covid Pandemic in India's Internal Migration
10. Amy Weatherburn, Lisa Berntsen, Similar work, yet different risks? Examining legal and institutional responses regarding essential migrant workers in Belgium and the Netherlands in Covid-19 times
11. Vittorio Cama, The Phenomenon of Caporalato in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
12. Anna Zaptsi, Rocío Garrido, Juan Carlos Aceros, Armando Agüero Collins, Migrant women workers against labour exploitation in Southern Spain in times of COVID-19

 

Fulvia STAIANO, Giulia CILIBERTO (eds.), Labour migration in the time of COVID-19: inequalities and perspectives for change, Rome, CNR Edizioni, 2021 (352 pp.)