CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Vosyliute, Lina |
|---|---|
| Title | MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: POTENTIAL HUMAN RIGHTS AVENUES FOR EMPOWERMENT |
| Summary | Migrant domestic workers are increasingly needed in the EU to manage ‘reproductive’ crisis and to ensure sustainable growth of economy. Nevertheless EU migration and labour policies ignore these migrant women and leave them almost without any rights. The concept of domestic work and women participation in migration is discussed in the first section. Second chapter analyses EU level labour migration policies and provides examples from Germany, France and the UK. In third chapter, research is focused on potential avenues for migrant domestic workers rights advancement within European Human Rights system. Here it is shown how certain framing of rights can either empower or further victimise the target group. Subsequently, analysis show how these claims can be enforced within three main actors within the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee for Social Rights. Thesis is concluded with an argument that whereas current situation is not just for the migrant domestic workers within the EU, European Human rights system has certain potential to ensure and empower their rights. The main solution proposed is a paradigm shift from migrant workers as ‘victims’, to migrant workers as ‘workers’. |
| Supervisor | Kollonay - Lehoczky, Csilla |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/vosyliute_lina.pdf |
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