Rights Talk and Domestic Work
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The Future of Law and Development: Second Generation Reforms and the Incorporation of the Social by Kerry Rittich
One of the most significant events in the field of development in recent years has been the effort to incorporate social concerns into the mainstream agenda of market reform and economic development… Part One and Part Two
read moreConvergences and Divergences in International Legal Norms on Migrant Labor by Chantal Thomas
Multiple international legal regimes’-in human rights law, refugee law, labor law, trade law and criminal law-address, to some degree, the rights and privileges that should be accorded to aliens working within the territories of states parties. Even within these particular subject areas, let alone between them, however, “little has been done” in the way of synthesis… Part One Part...
read moreThe White Savior Industrial Complex, Teju Cole
Teju Cole, The White Savior Industrial Complex, The Atlantic (March 21, 2012) A week and a half ago, I watched the Kony2012 video. Afterward, I wrote a brief seven-part response, which I posted in sequence on my Twitter account.These tweets were retweeted, forwarded, and widely shared by readers. They migrated beyond Twitter to blogs, Tumblr, Facebook, and other sites; I’m told they generated fierce arguments. As the days went by, the tweets were reproduced in their entirety on the websites of the Atlantic and the New York Times, and...
read moreCoerced Victims or Exploited Workers? Prabha Kotiswaran
Prabha Kotiswaran, Coerced Victims or Exploited Workers? Rightswork.org (February 20, 2012) This article originally appeared on Rightswork.org. To view the original, click here. Mahdavi’s book Gridlock offers a fascinating report of the negative consequences in the Middle-East, specifically in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Dubai as a result of the impact of the UN Trafficking Protocol[i] and the U.S. anti-trafficking law[ii]. Mahdavi focuses an invisible group of the Emirates’ inhabitants, namely, its migrant workers, ranging from...
read moreBlack Sites: Locating the Family and Family Law in Development by Kerry Rittich
While the family as an economic institution has traditionally been sidelined in development policy, development institutions like the World Bank now promote a range of legal and policy reforms that touch on the family and the household. This Article considers how interventions designed to expand formal markets and to encourage participation in markets and investments in human capital might provoke change within the family and the household. Although they aim to increase welfare by increasing measurable economic growth, such interventions have...
read moreIndia has to Rethink Human Trafficking, Prabha Kotiswaran
Prabha Kotiswaran, The Hindu (March 27, 2012) This article originally appeared in The Hindu. To read the original article, click here. Human trafficking is in the news these days. Many of these reports follow the predictable storyline of women enslaved in developing countries. India often features prominently in these narratives. For instance, Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times columnist and author of more than 46 op-eds on the subject of sex trafficking, recently conducted undercover raids in Sonagachi, Kolkata’s largest red-light...
read moreCritical Race Theory and Postcolonial Development Theory: Observations on Methodology by Chantal Thomas
In recent years, increasing interest has arisen as to the potential applications for Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) in international legal critique. This Essay raises the question in methodological form. Critical Race Theory and Postcolonial Development Theory: Observations on Methodology, 45 Villanova Law Review 1195 (2000) (Symposium on Critical Race Theory and International Law).
read moreThe Unintended Consequences of Nick Kristof’s Anti-Sex Trafficking Crusade, Aziza Ahmed
Aziza Ahmed, The Guardian (March 26, 2012). This article originally appeared on The Guardian’s website. Click here to read the original article. First, anti-sex trafficking activism has an extremely negative impact on HIV programs. Sex workers are highly vulnerable to contracting HIV. A key victory for anti-sex trafficking organizations was the insertion of the anti-prostitution loyalty oath (APLO) into the US Leadership Act for HIV/Aids, TB, and malaria. This provision requires that organizations agree to oppose prostitution and sex...
read moreBetween Worker’s Rights and Flexibility: Labor Law in an Uncertain World by Kerry Rittich
It is no secret to anyone in the field of labor law that we are at a critical juncture on the question of workplace governance, and that this is a moment of deep transformation with respect to both the context of work and the norms which govern work… “Between Workers’ Rights and Flexibility: Labor Law in an Uncertain World”, 54 St. Louis University Law Review 567 (2010).
read moreMigrant Domestic Workers in Egypt: A Case Study of the Economic Family in Global Context by Chantal Thomas
This Essay links a particular legal case study with a broader set of questions about the “family” in a global political and economic context. Part I clarifies the analytic links between the household, the market, and globalization. By studying Egypt, the Essay focuses on one part of this global sociolegal continuum and draws out the special significance of transnational background rules and conditions for the “developmental state.” Part II presents the legal framework affecting labor conditions of sub-Saharan African...
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