Pathways towards Legal Migration into the EU: Reappraising concepts, trajectories and policies. CEPS Paperback, September 2017

On 27 January 2017, the Justice and Home Affairs Section of CEPS and the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME) of the European Commission co-organised a policy workshop in Brussels entitled “Reappraising the EU legal migration acquis: Legal pathways for a new model of economic migration, and the role of social science research”. The event brought together leading academics, practitioners and European Commission representatives to assess and discuss the state of play in the (internal and external) EU legal migration acquis, and its role in developing legal pathways towards economic migration. Held under the Chatham House Rule, the policy workshop’s roundtable discussions allowed participants to identify and address some of the key challenges, inconsistencies and gaps in the standing EU policies and legislation in the area of legal and economic migration. Scholars involved in EU and nationally funded, collaborative research projects on social science and humanities (SSH) had the opportunity to exchange interdisciplinary knowledge with European Commission officials representing the different services working on legal migration policies. The role and potential of independent academic research in the framework of EU migration policymaking were also discussed. The full programme of the policy workshop is reproduced in the annex of this book

Facklig föreningsfrihet som mänsklig rättighet

  The aim of this study is to investigate some particular aspects of one of the human rights: the workers’ freedom of association. The workers’ freedom of association is protected in many international conventions adopted by the UN, the ILO and the Council of Europe. This thesis deals specifically with the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, ILO-conventions nos 87 and 98, the European Social Charter and the European Convention of Human Rights and investigates the content of the workers’ freedom of association in these conventions. It points at similarities and differences in the conventions. Special attention is given to the conventions’ different focus with regard to the individual and collective aspects of the right and to the general consequences following from that the workers’ freedom of association sometimes takes the form of an independent right and sometimes is an aspect of the general freedom of association. The thesis also discusses the relations between the different conventions. Sweden has ratified all of the conventions mentioned above and has therefore undertaken to fulfil the related commitments. Some questions emanating from this fact are dealt with in the thesis, e.g.: Could the Swedish EU-membership affect Sweden’s international legal obligations in this area? Has the proclamation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights influenced the answer to this question? Does Sweden fulfil the international legal obligations dealt with? Has the Europeanization of Swedish law affected the fulfilment of the obligations connected to the workers’ freedom of association?Juridikbok.se, CC-BY-NC 4.0</p

Inledning till temanummer om migration och arbete

Tidskriften Arbetsmarknad &amp; Arbetsliv, temanummer om migration och arbete</p