The FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar is now nicely below approach, but
the relentless public debates round Qatar’s human rights file, be it relating to
the rights of LGBTQ+ or the rights of migrant employees who constructed the infrastructure
that underpin the competitors, shouldn’t be dying down. In reality, the entire build-up
in the direction of the occasion has been outlined by an intense public scrutiny of Qatar, with
civil society organizations and worldwide labor unions partaking in steady
advocacy to report on and enhance the dwelling and dealing situations of migrant
employees energetic on Qatar’s many constructing websites. This problem additionally attracted
consideration and critique from each the worldwide media and public authorities
throughout the globe. In reality, the query of Qatar’s (lack of) compliance with
internationally acknowledged human rights and core labor requirements brought on a lot
unfavorable publicity and exterior stress that quite a lot of legislative and
institutional reforms have been initiated, formally aimed toward enhancing the rights
and standing of migrant employees in Qatar. Whereas it’s extremely disputed whether or not
these reforms have led to precise modifications on the bottom or must be seen solely
as window-dressing, it stays clear that the worldwide public consideration introduced
to Qatar by its internet hosting of the FIFA World Cup 2022 has compelled the Qatari
authorities to have interaction legislative reforms and pay at the least lip service to the
considerations raised.
Regardless of the truth that this problem continues to play
a serious function within the transnational public discourse, it obtained till now
comparatively scant consideration within the educational literature, particularly within the
worldwide/transnational authorized discipline. But, the debates across the Qatar 2022
World Cup are in observe mobilizing a spread of authorized arguments related to
the interpretation and software of worldwide human rights legislation and
worldwide labor legislation, in addition to activating worldwide (on the ILO) or
transnational (on the Swiss OECD Nationwide Contact Level) authorized processes.
Moreover, they elevate well-known questions relating to the compliance of states
with worldwide authorized commitments and join with debates on the
universality of human rights and their translation particularly social contexts.
Briefly, we consider there may be room for a multi-disciplinary engagement with the
authorized processes and social mobilizations triggered by Qatar’s profitable bid to
host the FIFA World Cup 2022 and their impacts on native social and authorized guidelines
and establishments. Therefore, Qatar’s journey in the direction of the FIFA World Cup 2022 constitutes
an fascinating case research to analyze extra usually the transnational
social and authorized mechanisms which underpin the concretization of worldwide
(human rights/labor) legislation in a specific context and provides it a particular actuality.
We invite paper submissions from completely different
methodological backgrounds (e.g. legislation, anthropology, sociology, historical past, public
coverage) which have interaction with the numerous entanglements of Qatar with worldwide
(human rights and labor) legislation within the context of the organizing and internet hosting of the
FIFA World Cup 2022. The papers will likely be first mentioned in a digital workshop
that can happen on 15 and 16
February 2023. Please observe that we have now an settlement with the German Legislation Journal (Open entry journal on comparative,
European and worldwide legislation revealed by Cambridge College Press) to
publish a choice of the papers.
For those who want to take part within the workshop and the
ensuing publications, please ship an summary of max. 300 phrases and a CV to
a.duval@asser.nl by 6 January 2023. The chosen members will likely be knowledgeable
by 9 January 2023. Prolonged abstracts (2000 phrases) will likely be due on 6 February
2023.
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