Three recent European Court of Human Rights cases of discrimination in education against Roma raise the question of what conditions must be present for parents to give 'meaningful' consent in decisions pertaining to their children and whether such consent can be meaningful when a fundamental...

This paper explores the empirical support behind the idea that there is a trade-off between the size of low-skilled migrant labor populations and the rights and entitlements accorded to them. We first look at the empirical correlation between measures of migrants' rights and the size of both the...

Controversy surrounds the large increase in international immigration, but little is known about the many drivers of this mobility. While most migration studies have focused on economic motivations, a small literature addresses the impact of human development and, indirectly, capability...

In Mexico, analysis of indigenous welfare is usually done using municipalities or localities, not households, as the point of reference, and this almost never in a way that allows for direct comparison with the non-indigenous population. The 2008 edition of the National Household Survey of...