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Migrant Domestic Workers In Egypt: A Case Study Of The Economic Family In Global Context, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Migrant Domestic Workers In Egypt: A Case Study Of The Economic Family In Global Context, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

This Essay links a particular legal case study with a broader set of questions about the "family" in a global political and economic context. Part I clarifies the analytic links between the household, the market, and globalization. By studying Egypt, the Essay focuses on one part of this global sociolegal continuum and draws out the special significance of transnational background rules and conditions for the "developmental state." Part II presents the legal framework affecting labor conditions of sub-Saharan African asylum-seekers who are migrant domestic workers in Egypt, and particularly the legal framework that affects their ability to bargain in securing …


Developing Countries And Multilateral Trade Agreements: Law And The Promise Of Development, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Developing Countries And Multilateral Trade Agreements: Law And The Promise Of Development, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Balance-Of-Payments Crises In The Developing World: Balancing Trade, Finance And Development In The New Economic Order, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Balance-Of-Payments Crises In The Developing World: Balancing Trade, Finance And Development In The New Economic Order, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Comparing The "1990s-Style" And "1980s-Style" Debt Crises, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Comparing The "1990s-Style" And "1980s-Style" Debt Crises, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Poverty Reduction, Trade, And Rights, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Poverty Reduction, Trade, And Rights, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Causes Of Inequality In The International Economic Order: Critical Race Theory And Postcolonial Development, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Causes Of Inequality In The International Economic Order: Critical Race Theory And Postcolonial Development, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing And Outsourcing Of Capital And Labor, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing And Outsourcing Of Capital And Labor, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Critical Race Theory And Postcolonial Development Theory: Observations On Methodology, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Critical Race Theory And Postcolonial Development Theory: Observations On Methodology, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Should The World Trade Organization Incorporate Labor And Environmental Standards?, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Should The World Trade Organization Incorporate Labor And Environmental Standards?, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Globalization And The Border: Trade, Labor, Migration, And Agricultural Production In Mexico, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Globalization And The Border: Trade, Labor, Migration, And Agricultural Production In Mexico, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

The debate over immigration policy in the United States has reached a crescendo in recent years, with particular concern over illegal workers and their impact on social well-being in this country. Yet in the prevailing analysis of this issue, the relationship between immigration and contemporary international trade policy is often overlooked. In particular, few commentators recognize or understand that a significant part of the surge in illegal labor from Mexico--the source of the majority of undocumented workers in the United States—stems from reforms that Mexico undertook in cooperation with the United States to liberalize trade flows across the Mexico-United States …


International Debt Forgiveness And Global Poverty Reduction, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

International Debt Forgiveness And Global Poverty Reduction, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Transfer Of Technology In The Contemporary International Order, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Transfer Of Technology In The Contemporary International Order, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Does The "Good Governance Policy" Of The International Financial Institutions Privilege Markets At The Expense Of Democracy?, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Does The "Good Governance Policy" Of The International Financial Institutions Privilege Markets At The Expense Of Democracy?, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Change And International Government, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Constitutional Change And International Government, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Convergences And Divergences In International Legal Norms On Migrant Labor, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Convergences And Divergences In International Legal Norms On Migrant Labor, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

This essay will argue that even where disparate treaties converge doctrinally, they may diverge normatively and that normative divergence may be significant in its own right. Section I of this essay seeks to chart out an initial such analysis, conducting a concise comparison of particular rules affecting migrant workers from different realms of international law. Section I concludes with both a graphic representation of doctrinal convergences and divergences, and a further discussion the doctrinal relationships among treaties as elucidated through consideration of hypothetical legal disputes. Section II considers the normative implications of divergent rule systems. In particular, Section II raises …