From a policy brief to academic publications. Read about the various publications of the RIGHTS project here:

Academic Publications

Burmeister-Rudolph, M. (2024). “Do good and talk about it”: informal representation and migrant-led civil society organizations’ mediation between low-wage labor migrants and state institutions in the GCC countries. Comparative Migration Studies 12(56). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00417-9

Burmeister-Rudolph, Mira (2024). Advancing emigrants’ rights in India: strategies of civil society in spaces for engagement, Globalizations,  https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2384147 

Burmeister-Rudolph, M. (2024). Reproducing and reformulating categories of skill in regional and global migration governance: evidence from India and Bangladesh. Ethnic and Racial Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2404485

Burmeister-Rudolph, Mira (2023). Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India’s emigrant and emigration policies, Citizenship Studies,  https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2244451

Burmeister-Rudolph, Mira (2023). A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites, Migration Studies, 11(2): 286–311, https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad002

Chee, Liberty (2020). “Supermaids”: Hyper-resilient Subjects in Neoliberal Migration Governance, International Political Sociology, 14(4):366–381, https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaa009

Ersanilli, Evelyn, & Präg, Patrick (2023). Fixed-term work contracts and anti-immigration attitudes. A novel test of ethnic competition theory, Socio-Economic Review, 21(1),  293-318, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwab059

Presley, Jonathan & Ersanilli, Evelyn (2026) 1,000,000 jobs abroad: balancing numbers and rights in Kenya’s labour migration programme. Third World Quarterly, 47(7), 1377–1395. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2601818

Policy Briefs

Ersanilli, Evelyn (2023) Origin countries policies on low-waged migrant workers. Results from the RIGHTS policy database. RIGHTS policy paper. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/9p2nm

Presley, Jonathan (2024) Kenya RIGHTS policy brief

Presley, Jonathan (2024) Senegal RIGHTS policy brief

Presley, Jonathan (2024) Uganda RIGHTS policy brief

Sekaringrat, Annisa (2024) Indonesia RIGHTS policy brief

Sekaringrat, Annisa (2024) Philippines RIGHTS policy brief

Media

Presley, Jonathan & Ersanilli, Evelyn (2026) Kenyans are encouraged to work abroad, but protection rights remain weak – new research, The Conversation Africa, https://theconversation.com/kenyans-are-encouraged-to-work-abroad-but-protection-rights-remain-weak-new-research-278802

Datasets

Ersanilli, E. (2024). RIGHTS policy database, v6.0. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/M5QZF

Newsletters

The RIGHTS team released its first newsletter in early 2024. You can read the newsletter or download it as a pdf by clicking this link. Here, among others, we announced the partnership between UPNVJ Indonesia and RIGHTS and the release of the RIGHTS policy database version 5.0.