India

Labour mobility as a structural blind spot in international economic law International economic law is structured around the regulation of goods, capital, and services, yet it remains strikingly underdeveloped when it comes to the governance of cross-border labour mobility. Although labour functions economically as a factor of production, its movement is treated as legally exceptional, temporary, and peripheral to economic regulation. Trade regimes permit limited labour mobility only when framed as service supplies, while migration law continues to regard labour movement primarily as an expression of sovereign control rather than economic coordination.