Against the backdrop of empires and neo-imperial legacies, extraterritorial practices that extend domestic law into the jurisdiction of another sovereign state run against the grain of contemporary international law. Even where there is consent to such encroachments, extraterritorial regimes sit uneasily within the receiving state’s legal framework and raise questions about the legitimacy and, often, constitutionality of externally imposed regulations. Yet extraterritorial regimes designed to protect the human and labor rights of migrant workers are now an accepted, if not essential, part of the international legal landscape. A closer look at how these regimes operate in the Gulf region invites scholars to reconsider the structural features of extraterritoriality and their implications for the universal and multilateral ambitions of promoting temporary labour mobility.
Rosemary Ann Byrne (Thu,) studied this question.