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  • Open Windows, Closed Doors

    Mutual Recognition Arrangements on Professional Services in the ASEAN Region

    by Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza, Maria Vincenza Desiderio, Guntur Sugiyarto, Brian Salant ...
    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has signed mutual recognition arrangements in the tourism sector and in six regulated occupations: accountancy, architecture, dentistry, engineering, medicine, and nursing. By setting standardized rules for mutual recognition, ASEAN members have made it easier for professionals to have their qualifications recognized across the region. Although ... Read more

    $7.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reinventing Mutual Recognition Arrangements

    Lessons from International Experiences and Insights for the ASEAN Region

    by Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza, Demetrios Demetrios, Maria Vincenza Desiderio, Brian Salant, Kate Hooper, Taylor Elwood ...
    Governments and nonstate actors around the world have signed mutual recognition arrangements (MRAs), but while most of them share the goals of streamlining the recognition of foreign workers' qualifications and boosting labor mobility, the MRAs vary considerably. Implementation challenges faced in the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe offer lessons for Asian policymakers seeking to ... Read more

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  • Achieving Skill Mobility in the ASEAN Economic Community

    Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Implications

    by Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Guntur Sugiyarto, Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza, Brian Salant ...
    Despite clear aspirations by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to create an effective and transparent framework to facilitate movements among skilled professionals within the ASEAN by December 2015, progress has been slow and uneven. This report examines the challenges ASEAN member states face in achieving the goal of greater mobility for the highly skilled, including hurdles in ... Read more

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  • The Purchase of Intimacy

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  • Reworking the Relationship between Asylum and Employment

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    Touching on the laws and practices of a wide array of countries around the globe, this book examines the extent to which refugees and asylum-seekers’ right to work is protected by international human rights law. The book examines a number of key international treaties, national constitutions and some foundational cases from national courts in order to make the case that the practise of restricting ... Read more

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  • Global "Body Shopping"

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    Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

    by Charles W. Smith, Larry Savage ...
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  • Migrants at Work

    Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour Law

    Edited by Cathryn Costello, Mark Freedland ...
    There is a highly significant and under-considered intersection and interaction between migration law and labour law. Labour lawyers have tended to regard migration law as generally speaking outside their purview, and migration lawyers have somewhat similarly tended to neglect labour law. The culmination of a collaborative project on 'Migrants at Work' funded by the John Fell Fund, the Society of ... Read more

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  • Legal Professional Privilege for Corporations

    A Guide to Four Major Common Law Jurisdictions

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