Alan Desmond

About/Bio

Alan Desmond has been working at Leicester Law School at the University of Leicester since September 2016. He is editor of Shining New Light on the UN Migrant Workers Convention (2017) and the quarterly peer-reviewed Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law.

Recently Published

Tax the Poor! Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” and International Standards on Remittance Transaction Costs

Nearly one in seven people worldwide is either a sender or recipient of remittances, defined by IOM as “personal monetary transfers… made by migrants to individuals or communities with whom the migrant has links”. The World Bank estimates that, in 2024, global remittances sent through formal channels totalled over 904 billion USD. They are an important…

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