This volume has two main contributions. Firstly, it is designed to
inform the negotiations on the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and
Regular Migration announced by the New York Declaration of the UN
General Assembly on 19 September 2016. Second, it intends to assist
officials, lawyers and academics to ensure that the human rights of
migrants are fully respected by state authorities and international
organisations and safeguarded by national and supranational courts
across the globe. The overall objective of this book is to clarify
problem areas which migrants encounter as non-citizens of the state
where they are and how international human rights obligations of those
states provide solutions. It defines the existing international human
rights of migrants and provides the source of States’ obligations. In
order to provide a clear and useful guide to the existing human rights
of migrants, the volume examines these rights from the perspective of
the migrant: what situations do people encounter as their status changes
from citizen (in their own country) to migrant (in a foreign state),
and how do human rights provide legal entitlements regarding their
treatment by a foreign state?
