Migrant Domestic Workers and Migration Law in the EU

01/12/2015

http://www.mrci.ie/press-centre/new-report-reveals-poor-treatment-of-migrant-home-care-workers-in-ireland

Migrant Rights Centre Ireland - New Report on Migrants' Rights in the Home Care Centre, and gaps in protection

‘Migrant Workers in the Home Care Sector: Preparing for the Elder Boom in Ireland’, published today by the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI), tracks Ireland’s impending ‘elder boom’ and details the messy reality of Ireland’s care sector.

13/10/2015

Forthcoming conference at Maynooth University Department of Law on 20 November: "Employment Status and Undeclared Work". One of our 'case studies' is undocumented migrant workers. https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/employment-status-and-undeclared-work

22/09/2015

New documentary on domestic workers from the Office of teh High Commissioner for Human Rights:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/Lifeintheshadows.

12/06/2015

Check out our new paper forthcoming in the American Journal of Comparative Law, free to download on SSRN

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2614561

The scope of diplomatic immunity and the claims by domestic workers in diplomatic households have been the subject of a series of cases in the US and UK courts

01/04/2015

Siobhán Mullally and Cliodhna Murphy 'Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK: Exclusions, Exemptions and Rights' in Human Rights Quarterly (2014)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/v036/36.2.mullally.html

01/04/2015

Check out S. Mullally (ed) 'Care, Migration and Human Rights: Law and Practice' (Routledge Series in Human Rights: 2015),

with contributions from Gulnara Shahinian, former UN Special Rapporteur on Slavery, Nicole Constable, Director of Asian Studies, Uni of Pittsburgh, Fulvia Staiano, European University Institute, Ayesha Shahid (Brunel University), Ann Stewart (Uni of Warwick) and Cliodhna Murphy (Maynooth Uni).

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138792869/

The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status – has frequently been neglected. It is primarily the moments of...

22/10/2013

Check out Clíodhna Murphy's book on issues related to migration, integration and social inclusion - just published by Ashgate. Details and sample chapter available at the link below.

http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409462514

This book examines the role and impact of EU, international human rights and refugee law on national laws and policies for integration and argues for a broad understanding of the relationship between integration and the law. It analyses the legal foundations of integration at the international and r...

25/09/2013

In a move which mirrors that of Labour in the 1990s, Labour shadow Home Office Minister has stated that Labour would re-introduce a more secure, independent overseas domestic workers visa

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/23/labour-overseas-domestic-worker-visas-chris-bryant?CMP=twt_gu

Chris Bryant says abolition of visa last year left foreign domestic staff in UK open to abuse or exploitation

09/09/2013

ILO Convention on Domestic Work comes into force on 5 September 2013. Ireland has committed to ratifying this Convention (see http://www.ilo.org/brussels/information-resources/news/WCMS_216315/lang--en/index.htm) - when will this happen?

It’s probably the biggest social movement that you’ve never heard of. Unless, of course, you are one of the millions of activists directly involved.

31/07/2013

PhD Scholarship in Law available at DCU (School of Law and Government)

http://dcu.ie/socio-legal/news/article/phd-scholarship-in-law

A generous 4-year scholarship is available for an outstanding PhD candidate in the field of Law, within the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. The scholarship will include fee waiver and a tax-free stipend of up to €15,000 per annum for a full-time PhD student. The School also s...

02/07/2013

New blog post on Human Rights in Ireland on ongoing issues relating to family rights and deportation in Ireland

06/06/2013

More commentary on the UK Employment Appeals Tribunal decision on racial discrimination and migrant domestic workers.

A recent UK Employment Appeal Tribunal decision has dismissed a claim of direct racial discrimination brought by a Nigerian woman employed as a domestic worker in “appalling” conditions. She allegedly suffered threats and abuse at the hands of her employer, worked 80 hours per week and at one stage…