Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low-Waged Migrant Workers

Abstract

This editorial chapter sets the stage for the groundbreaking chapters that comprise this volume. We discuss in some detail the fragmented legal framework of intra-EU mobility and labour market access of third-country nationals coming to the EU. In the discussion of the concept of decent labour and decent labour markets, we identify three dichotomies at the intersection of (the regulation of) labour markets and migration that underlie this volume. This is followed by a discussion of the collected chapters, each of which describes and problematises aspects of the road and obstacles towards a decent labour market for low-waged migrant workers. The chapter concludes with a multilayered framework and some unconventional thoughts on how to achieve such a decent labour market.