Labor law. Migrant workers. Vulnerability. Social protection. Global constitutionalism.
This dissertation has as its initial object the condition of extreme vulnerability of migrant and refugee workers, even being targets of slave labor networks. This results from a generalized context of crisis in the world of work, which has been suffering from the austere policies of neoliberalism, which lead to situations of precariousness, informality and exploitation, in addition to a structural dismantling of social rights. Thus, based on theories such as the new labor internationalism and based on new emancipatory and counter-hegemonic social movements, based on the Critical Social Theory and using the hypothetical-deductive method, the research aims to expand the protective canons of Labor Law in a global scope, expanding labor principles to encompass social protection and, in the process, envisioning labor law as a fundamental human right. In this way, the study intends to demonstrate that the current conception of the Nation-State is no longer capable of solving social complaints on a global scale, requiring its reformulation. As a way of solving such problems of a global nature, the theory of global constitutionalism is proposed in order to achieve an effective expansion of protective canons for all the workers on the planet.