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Avoiding Evasion: Implementing International Migration Policy, Justin Gest
Avoiding Evasion: Implementing International Migration Policy, Justin Gest
International Migrants Bill of Rights Symposium
Despite the broadening range of international arbiters of global migration, the state—with its sovereign control of its territory and its subjection to the politics of its society—remains the only arbiter that oversees the actual interactions during which a proposed bill of rights would be followed. “As long as the nation-state is the primary unit for dispensing rights and privileges, it remains the main interlocutor, reference and target of interest groups and political actors, including migrant groups and their supporters.” This suggests that the normative persuasion and mobilization of even the most powerful non-state actors can only be in the ultimate …
The Most-Favoured Nation Principle, Equal Protection, And Migration Policy, Tomer Broude
The Most-Favoured Nation Principle, Equal Protection, And Migration Policy, Tomer Broude
International Migrants Bill of Rights Symposium
This article discusses the theoretical interaction between the economically grounded most-favoured nation (MFN) treatment principle and the human-rights based concept of equal protection of migrants. In the multilateral law of international trade, MFN is an article of faith that lays a valid claim to having significantly contributed to the success of the trade-liberalizing and welfare-enhancing role of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade /World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO). Above and beyond its trade-related economic roles, when it applies to individuals of different nationalities, the logic of MFN also appears to generally conform to fundamental principles of equal protection of the …