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Transnationalisation of Social Rights

Transnationalisation of Social Rights

Author: Kolja Moller; Andreas Fischer-Lescano
Publisher: Intersentia Publishers
ISBN: 9781780683966
Published In: June 2016
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Migration crisis, food crisis, economic crisis - the most alarming tendencies in our contemporary world are related to the transnational social question. But what role does transnational law play in this context: Does it exacerbate the asymmetries by shielding the rich and exploiting the poor? Or is the emerging regime of international social human rights a promising candidate for countering the crisis of world society?

This book scrutinises both the potentials and the boundaries of de-coupling the notion of "social rights" from the nation-state and of transferring it to the transnational sphere. By drawing on a critical theory of transnational law, it provides in-depth analyses of the different sites where the struggle for social rights is at stake, such as the emerging transnational food regime, the ILO, international environmental law and the accountability of private actors. It reveals enforcement structures, discusses judicial doctrine and relates these aspects to the social and political struggles which surround the transnationalisation of social rights.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. Transnational Social Rights in Context

Chapter 2. The Struggle for Transnational Social Rights

Chapter 3. Normative Perspectives on Transnational Social Rights

Chapter 4. Conceptualising Transnational Social Rights: Developments and Forms

Part II: Foundations, Institutions and Enforcement Structures

Chapter 5. Enforcement of Transnational Social Rights: International and National Legal Aspects

Chapter 6. Horizontal Effects of Human Rights: The EU proposal for a Non-Financial Reporting Framework

Chapter 7. Labour Rights and the ILO: The Challenge of Transforming Informal Economic Activities to Promote Transnational Social Rights - Domestic and Care Work as Core Issues

Part III: Enforcement of Transnational Social Rights

Chapter 8. Transnational Socio-Economic Rights: Inter-Linkages in the Context to the Right of Food

Chapter 9. Agroenergy and the Right to Food: The EU Biofuel Mandate and Transnational Social Rights

Chapter 10. Between Rights and Power Assymetries: Contemporary Struggles for Land in Brazil and Colombia

Chapter 11. The Zapatista Struggle for the Right to Land: Background, Context and Strategies (p.

265)

Index