ABSTRACT
The following chapter introduces key international legal protections available to migrants in their journey from their countries of origin to escape repression or in search of a better life, during their residence as foreign nationals in their host nations, and when confronting the enforcement of domestic immigration laws against them. This chapter does not address the rights available to stateless persons or victims of human traffi cking, nor does it discuss the norms governing the rights of migrants treated as “enemy aliens” in foreign lands.
