Abstract:
In What Happened to Equality? The Construction of the Right to Equal Treatment of ThirdCountry
Nationals in European Union Law on Labour Migration, Friðriksdóttir examines five
European Union Directives on labour migration that were adopted based on a sectoral
approach to labour migration management. An account of the negotiations between the
Commission, the Council and the Parliament on the five Directives reveals how access to
territory and the labour market, the right to equal treatment and the right to family reunification
were constructed for the different groups of labour migrants and how differentiation between
groups of migrants, and discrimination against migrants compared with nationals which
contravenes international and European human rights frameworks and international labour
law, is institutionalized.