Volume 10 : 1
Editorial Introduction: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: The Emerging European Union Regime
The New EU Rules on Non-Financial Reporting: Potential Impacts on Access to Remedy?
Human Rights in Global Supply Chains: Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Procurement in the European Union
Business and Human Rights Abuses: Claiming Compensation under the Brussels I Recast
The Enforcement of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence: From the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the Legal Systems of EU Countries
State Commitment in Implementing the UNGPs and the Emerging Regime of National Action Plans: A Comparative Analysis
Cleaning Dirty Hands? Some Thoughts on Private Companies, Migration and CSR in the European Union
Towards a Holistic Approach to Business and Human Rights in the European Union
Editorial Introduction: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: The Emerging European Union Regime
The New EU Rules on Non-Financial Reporting: Potential Impacts on Access to Remedy?
Human Rights in Global Supply Chains: Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Procurement in the European Union
Business and Human Rights Abuses: Claiming Compensation under the Brussels I Recast
The Enforcement of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence: From the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the Legal Systems of EU Countries
State Commitment in Implementing the UNGPs and the Emerging Regime of National Action Plans: A Comparative Analysis
Cleaning Dirty Hands? Some Thoughts on Private Companies, Migration and CSR in the European Union
Towards a Holistic Approach to Business and Human Rights in the European Union
Year
2016
Volume
10
Number
1
Page
139
Language
English
Court
Reference
T. BLOOM, “Cleaning Dirty Hands? Some Thoughts on Private Companies, Migration and CSR in the European Union”, HRILD 2016, nr. 1, 139-159
Recapitulation
Migration is so far little discussed in the CSR literature and CSR is little discussed in the migration literature. Where these discourses do come together, it is most commonly regarding how private companies affect migration patterns, the need for employers to adhere to State immigration policies, and the possible involvement of the private sector in activities relating to trafficking. However, European countries frequently use the services of private companies to carry out a range of migration related activities. This paper looks at the use of private companies to support a State’s pre-entry measures (carrier sanctions), internal measures (detention) and ejection (deportation). It presents some of the ways in which this delegation may be considered problematic and suggests a possible direction for a CSR case for corporations sometimes not to carry out States’ wishes in this sector. In particular, it suggests that there is scope for considering a business case for CSR in this sector, an ethical case and a legal case. It offers a brief discussion of how access to passenger transportation could in some circumstances be seen as a vital need. This paper uses the discussion of the involvement of the passenger transport industry in migration control to draw attention to two wider concerns. First, how can European CSR respond in situations where the European States themselves may be violating international norms? Second, is there scope for developing an understanding of CSR in the wider migration control sector?