The Sectoral Regulatory Regime: When Work Migration Controls and the Sectorally Differentiated Labour Market Meet

This chapter argues that once migration controls policy, which allocates migrants to particular sectors in the labour market, comes together with the sectoral setting, a crucially important regulatory regime is created, which is sectoral in essence—the Sectoral Regulatory Regime. The chapter examines this regime through a look at the responses to the Supreme Court of Israel’s decision in the Kav LaOved case, which had declared that the binding of migrant workers to their employer was unconstitutional as a violation of the basic dignity and liberty of the individual. The chapter traces the impact of that ruling in two sectors, the construction sector and the domestic care-work sector. By examining both sectors it elucidates how the liberty-protective values of the Supreme Court ruling came to be translated (if not distorted) in different ways as new migration laws were created for each sector, posing challenges to labour law