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This Handbook focuses on the complexity surrounding the interaction between trade, labour mobility and development, taking into consideration social, economic and human rights implications, and identifies mechanisms for lawful movements across borders and their practical implementation.

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This volume alerts us to cross-border labour movement in different regions in the world and highlights the legal and political factors that underpin socioeconomic dynamics in this domain. - Virginie Guiraudon, Sciences Po Paris, France This Handbook is an outstanding contribution to the study of international labour migration. It combines a high degree of analysis with very good case studies of labour migration in different parts of the world. Regions often neglected are included and the political and human rights dimensions are well analyzed. It is an indispensible tool for scholars of migration. - Zig Layton-Henry, University of Warwick, UK A global approach to migration at the heart of present questions. - Catherine de Wenden, Sciences Po Paris, France

"""This volume alerts us to cross-border labour movement in different regions in the world and highlights the legal and political factors that underpin socioeconomic dynamics in this domain."" - Virginie Guiraudon, Sciences Po Paris, France ""This Handbook is an outstanding contribution to the study of international labour migration. It combines a high degree of analysis with very good case studies of labour migration in different parts of the world. Regions often neglected are included and the political and human rights dimensions are well analyzed. It is an indispensible tool for scholars of migration."" - Zig Layton-Henry, University of Warwick, UK ""A global approach to migration at the heart of present questions."" - Catherine de Wenden, Sciences Po Paris, France"

This Handbook is an outstanding contribution to the study of International Labour Migration. It combines a high degree of analysis with very good case studies of labour migration in different parts of the world. Regions often neglected are included and the political and human rights dimensions are well analysed. It is an indispensible tool for scholars of migration. - Zig Layton-Henry, University of Warwick, UK

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Aderanti Adepoju, Human Resources Development Centre, Lagos Cesla Amarelle, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Graziano Battistella, Scalabrini Migration Center, Philippines Natalia Bernal Garcia, Universidad de Los Andes Colombia, Columbia Amanda Bisong, World Trade Institute, Switzerland Caroline Axelle Caplan, Montpellier University, France Lucie Cerna, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford Ryszard Cholewinski, International Labour Organization, Switzterland Thomas Cottier, University of Bern, Switzerland E. Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, European University Institute, Italy Jérôme Elie, Researcher and consultant on international migration and refugee issues, Switzerland Elisa Fornalé, World Trade Institute, Switzerland Miryam Hazán, Mexicans and Americans Thinking Together, US James Hollifield, Southern Methodist University, US William Hynes, Georgetown University, US Johanna Jacobsson, European University Institute, Italy Sara Iglesias Sanchez, European Court of Justice Tesseltje de Lange, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Philip Martin, University of California-Davis, US Yoshiko Naiki, Osaka University, Japan Jeremaiah Opiniano, Institute for Migration and Development Issues, Philippines Marion Panizzon, University of Bern, Switzerland Sonia Plaza, World Bank, US María Angélica Prada, Universidad de los Andes Colombia, Columbia Leila Rispens-Noel, International Network of Alternative Financial Institutions, Senegal CharlotteSieber-Gasser, University of Bern, Switzerland Jan Schmitz, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, EU Helène Thiollet, CERI-Sciences Po, France Rene Urueña, Universidad de Los Andes Colombia, Columbia Piyasiri Wickramasekara, University of Sydney, Australia Gottfried Zürcher, Directorate for Migration Policy, Switzerland

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