Transnational Labour Migrants: Whose Responsibility?

Abstract

Equality and anti-discrimination is a basic principle underlying human and labour rights. It is about the equal worth of all human beings. This is especially important for the protection and working conditions of workers labouring in foreign countries, in a world constituted by nation-states where rights naturally derive from citizenship. By law every man’s labour is his own property, and he may make what bargain he pleases with his own employment. This chapter discusses the situation of low-skilled and unskilled labour migrants in South East Asia ('SEA') and their interaction with the citizenship 'discourse', to explore the meaning and role of concepts of allegiance and identity in this con..