This article elaborates first (1) on the nature and the principled background of social human rights, analysing the provisions of the two key European treaties of human rights, as well as their material scope and scope of subjects. What follows is (2) an evaluation of the rights from the subjective viewpoint of one target group, namely migrants, considering to what extent they are covered by rights that are intended as universal, (3) what are the nature of special provisions that target migrants, and (4) what is the status and what are the human rights of third country migrants. © 2008 SAGE Publications.

Irregular migration Migration social human rights rights to dignity third country migrants European Social Charter regular employment legal residence

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