Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration: Protecting the child-parent relationship, Rasika Ramburuth Jayasuriya”

This book focuses on the issue of how the global temporary migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children covered by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), especially their right to preserve their identity, including family relationships between these parents and their children. This research reveals potential harms to the child’s well-being caused by prolonged child-parent separation and highlights the role of labour migration policies in this regard and the States’ responsibility in putting in place effective measures to maintain transnational family relations between these parents and their children.

Child Identity Protection welcomes this child rights-based approach to the analysis of the phenomenon of labour migration, and especially the impact of these processes on the right to preserve identity, including family relations, recognised in article 8 of the CRC, and supports the conclusion of this book that States need to (i) establish mechanisms to ensure these transnational family relations, essential for the optimal development and well-being of the child and respect for his/her identity, and (ii) restore them whenever they are disrupted.