How Qatar’s migrant workers became FIFA’s Problem: a transnational struggle for responsibility

Q2 Social Sciences

Transnational Legal Theory Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI:10.1080/20414005.2022.2030633

A. Duval

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT Since 2012, and the attribution of the organisation of its crown jewel (and cash cow) – the FIFA World Cup – to Qatar, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has been facing public outrage. It has been accused of being linked to labour rights abuses suffered by the people who are literally building the World Cup in Qatar. This paper studies the transnational struggle aimed at forcing FIFA, a non-profit Swiss association, to take responsibility for these abuses and to use its leverage to remedy them. In particular, it highlights the legal and non-legal strategies used to turn the abuses faced by Qatar’s migrant workers into FIFA’s problem, it shows how FIFA used the UNGPs as a blueprint to frame its (limited) responsibility vis-à-vis those workers, and it assesses the (limited) impact of this acknowledgment of responsibility by FIFA.

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卡塔尔的移民工人如何成为国际足联的问题:一场跨国责任斗争

自2012年以来，国际足联(FIFA)将其皇冠上的明珠(也是摇钱树)——世界杯——归属于卡塔尔，国际足联(FIFA)一直面临着公众的愤怒。它被指控与在卡塔尔建造世界杯的工人所遭受的劳工权利侵犯有关。本文研究了跨国斗争，旨在迫使国际足联，一个非营利性的瑞士协会，对这些滥用行为承担责任，并利用其杠杆来补救它们。特别地，它强调了将卡塔尔移民工人所面临的虐待转变为国际足联问题的法律和非法律策略，它展示了国际足联如何使用ungp作为蓝图来框架其对-à-vis这些工人的(有限)责任，并评估了国际足联承认责任的(有限)影响。

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Transnational Legal Theory Social Sciences-Law

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