The UN Convention on Migrant Workers’ Rights is the most comprehensive international treaty in the field of migration and human rights. It was adopted in 1990 and it entered into force in 2003. The convention sets a standard in terms of access to human rights for migrants. However, it suffers from a marked indifference: only fourty states have ratified it and no major immigration country has done so. This highlights how migrants remain forgotten in terms of access to rights. Even though their labour is essential in the world economy, the non-economic aspect of migration – and especially migrants’ rights – remain a neglected dimension of globalisation.