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.

OUVRAGE : F. Staiano, The Human Rights of Migrant Women in International and European Law

Fulvia STAIANO

European and domestic migration law indirectly discriminates against third-country national migrant women. Can human and fundamental rights law remedy this gender bias? This book seeks to unveil the existence of a gender bias in European norms – at both EU and domestic level – regulating migrant women’s family life and employment. Most importantly, the book aims to analyse the potential of European human and fundamental rights law to expose and correct this bias. Touching upon the two macro-areas of family life and employment, it argues that migrant women’s most common life circumstances must come to the fore in order to fulfil both of these aims. The book reviews and critically assesses relevant examples of human and fundamental rights jurisprudence at supranational and domestic level. It identifies effective judicial interpretations to ensure migrant women’s enjoyment of their rights and entitlements in conditions of equality and non-discrimination.