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Human Security and Human Rights of Labour Migrants in the Americas

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The human security notion has been defended with the argument that the broad spectrum of perils that people confront in this global era cannot be understood nor fully tackled by traditional public policies and concepts of national, military and state security. The recent conceptualization of human security on the basis of freedom from fear, freedom from want and freedom to live in dignity has operated both in a horizontal way with regard to the subject matter of security — the elements and conditions considered to pose threats — and in a vertical way with regard to who should be the object of security — the actors worthy of protection — persons instead of states.

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    Marion Panizzon (Assistant Professor of International Law) & Elisa Fornalé (Postdoctoral Researcher) (Assistant Professor of International Law) &  (Postdoctoral Researcher)

  2. Federal Office for Migration, Switzerland

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Estrada-Tanck, E.D. (2015). Human Security and Human Rights of Labour Migrants in the Americas. In: Panizzon, M., Zürcher, G., Fornalé, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of International Labour Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137352217_11

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