ABSTRACT
Van Roermund coins the fundamental concepts in this book to be ‘labour’ and ‘migration’. Plus ‘law’, of course. However, the latter is not at par with the former two. Law will enter the argument as the normative viewpoint from which the basic conceptual discourse on migration and labour will be analysed. In other words, first and foremost, he explores the conceptual geography of these complex phenomena directly. Section 1 presents their fundamental differences; Section 2, their relationship based on these differences; and, against this backdrop, Section 3 spells out the implications in the form of a few general parameters for lawmaking. As the angle of this paper is a philosophical one, primarily, it will not come as a surprise that these implications will be accounted for in terms of legal principles rather than rules, doctrines, or policies.
