The international convention seeks to accomodate competing concerns by providing human rights protections to undocumented migrants which are substantial but less extensive than those provided to documented migrants, and through ensuring states' continuing authority in the spheres of immigration control and national "membership policy'. The article concludes that, despite the unmistakable normative value of many of the convention's protective provisions, its ability to substantially ameliorate the human rights situation of irregular migrants is significantly constrained by its over-riding commitment to the norms and structures of sovereign statehood. -from Author

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Migrant Workers human rights labour migration UN convention state sovereignty