Labour Migration Human Trafficking And Multinational Corporations

Author : Ato Quayson,Antonela Arhin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136482649

Get Book

Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations by Ato Quayson,Antonela Arhin Pdf

Although much literature on human trafficking focuses on sex trafficking, a great deal of human trafficking results from migrant workers, compelled - by economic deprivation in their home countries - to seek better life opportunities abroad, especially in agriculture, construction and domestic work. Such labour migration is sometimes legal and well managed, but sometimes not so – with migrant workers frequently threatened or coerced into entering debt bondage arrangements and ending up working in forced labour situations producing goods for illicit markets. This book fills a substantial gap in the existing literature given that labour trafficking is a much more subtle form of exploitation than sex trafficking. It discusses how far large multinational corporations are involved, whether intentionally or unintentionally, in human trafficking for the purposes of labour exploitation. They explore how far corporations are driven to seek cheap labour by the need to remain commercially competitive and examine how the problem often lies with corporations’ subcontractors, who are not as well controlled as they might be. The essays in the volume also outline and assess measures being taken by governments and international agencies to eradicate the problem.

Author : Michele Ford,Lenore Lyons,Willem van Schendel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136328008

Get Book

Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia by Michele Ford,Lenore Lyons,Willem van Schendel Pdf

Since the signing of the UN Trafficking Protocol, anti-trafficking laws, policies and other initiatives have been implemented at the local, national and regional levels. These activities have received little scholarly attention. This volume aims to begin to fill this gap by documenting the micro-processes through which an anti-trafficking framework has been translated, implemented and resisted in mainland and island Southeast Asia. The detailed ethnographic accounts in this collection examine the everyday practices of the diverse range of actors involved in trafficking-like practices and in anti-trafficking initiatives. In demonstrating how the anti-trafficking framework has become influential – and even over-determining – in some border sites and yet remains mostly irrelevant in others, the chapters in this collection explore the complex connections between labour migration, migrant smuggling and human trafficking.

Author : Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen,Ninna Nyberg Sorensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136180880

Get Book

The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen,Ninna Nyberg Sorensen Pdf

Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants’ desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour immigration companies, to multinational companies managing detention centres or establishing border security, to the organized criminal networks profiting from human smuggling and trafficking, we are currently witnessing a growing commercialization of international migration. This volume claims that today it is almost impossible to speak of migration without also speaking of the migration industry. Yet, acknowledging the role the migration industry plays prompts a number of questions that have so far received only limited attention among scholars and policy makers. The book offers new concepts and theory for the study of international migration by bringing together cross-disciplinary theoretical explorations and original case studies. It also provides a global coverage of the phenomena under study, covering migrant destinations in Europe, the United States and Asia, and migrant sending regions in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Author : Beate Andrees
Publisher : tredition
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783347220003

Get Book

Regulating the Business of Labour Migration Intermediaries by Beate Andrees Pdf

The business of labour migration intermediation has existed as long as people traded and migrated across territories, countries and continents. Recent technological innovations and the global expansion of production and trade have led to an unprecedented increase in international labour migration, providing a fertile ground for labour migration intermediaries. As many recipient countries have created high entry barriers, especially for low-skilled workers, migrants are often at the mercy of informal recruiters. In the worst case, they end up in the clutches of unscrupulous smugglers and traffickers. The growing trend towards informal labour migration intermediation creates regulatory challenges, which are discussed in the book. Which regulatory regimes are best suited to formalize the migration intermediation business, and to protect migrants from exploitation and abuse? Under what conditions will they most likely occur? The study uses a mix of qualitative methods, including a comparative analysis of the regulation of labour migration intermediaries in the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation. In both countries, international standards, particularly on human trafficking and private employment agencies, guided regulatory initiatives. Their outcomes, however, depended on a range of factors, including the creation of alliances between business and workers.

Author : Gary Craig,Louise Waite,Hannah Lewis,Klara Skrivankova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137460417

Get Book

Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants by Gary Craig,Louise Waite,Hannah Lewis,Klara Skrivankova Pdf

Globalization, the economic crisis and related policies of austerity have led to a growth in extreme exploitation at work, with migrants particularly vulnerable. This book explores the lives of the growing numbers of severely exploited labourers in the world today, questioning how we can respond to such globalized patterns of extreme inequality.

Author : Yoon Jin Shin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004311145

Get Book

A Transnational Human Rights Approach to Human Trafficking by Yoon Jin Shin Pdf

In A Transnational Human Rights Approach to Human Trafficking, Yoon Jin Shin proposes an innovative and comprehensive human rights framework to human trafficking, to empower victimized individuals as rights-holders, overcoming the current regime’s state-interest-driven border and crime control approach.

Author : Ato Quayson,Antonela Arhin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136482632

Get Book

Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations by Ato Quayson,Antonela Arhin Pdf

Although much literature on human trafficking focuses on sex trafficking, a great deal of human trafficking results from migrant workers, compelled - by economic deprivation in their home countries - to seek better life opportunities abroad, especially in agriculture, construction and domestic work. Such labour migration is sometimes legal and well managed, but sometimes not so – with migrant workers frequently threatened or coerced into entering debt bondage arrangements and ending up working in forced labour situations producing goods for illicit markets. This book fills a substantial gap in the existing literature given that labour trafficking is a much more subtle form of exploitation than sex trafficking. It discusses how far large multinational corporations are involved, whether intentionally or unintentionally, in human trafficking for the purposes of labour exploitation. They explore how far corporations are driven to seek cheap labour by the need to remain commercially competitive and examine how the problem often lies with corporations’ subcontractors, who are not as well controlled as they might be. The essays in the volume also outline and assess measures being taken by governments and international agencies to eradicate the problem.

Author : Elaine Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Child labor
ISBN : UVA:X004943303

Get Book

The Mekong Challenge by Elaine Pearson Pdf

In exploring ways to prevent trafficking, the International Labour Organization-International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) in Bangkok, through the Mekong Sub-regional Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women (TICW), is looking to reduce demand for those in labour exploitation. The study will focus on four labour sectors in - fisheries and fish processing, manufacturing (small to medium-sized firms), domestic work and agriculture. The research results, which will be available in 2006, will help inform appropriate policy and programme interventions involving employers and workers organizations as well as governments.

Author : Pardis Mahdavi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804777506

Get Book

Gridlock by Pardis Mahdavi Pdf

The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors—but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however, draws a more complicated and more personal picture of this city filled with migrants. Not all migrant workers are trapped, tricked, and abused. Like anyone else, they make choices to better their lives, though the risk of ending up in bad situations is high. Legislators hoping to combat human trafficking focus heavily on women and sex work, but there is real potential for abuse of both male and female migrants in a variety of areas of employment—whether on the street, in a field, at a restaurant, or at someone's house. Gridlock explores how migrants' actual experiences in Dubai contrast with the typical discussions—and global moral panic—about human trafficking. Mahdavi powerfully contrasts migrants' own stories with interviews with U.S. policy makers, revealing the gaping disconnect between policies on human trafficking and the realities of forced labor and migration in the Persian Gulf. To work toward solving this global problem, we need to be honest about what trafficking is—and is not—and to finally get past the stereotypes about trafficked persons so we can really understand the challenges migrant workers are living through every day.

Author : Christien van den Anker,Ilse van Liempt
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230279139

Get Book

Human Rights and Migration by Christien van den Anker,Ilse van Liempt Pdf

The contributors show that the current understanding of trafficking excludes large groups of people who, due to their migration status, experience human rights violations on a continuum of exploitation ranging from forced labour to minor detractions from labour standards.

Author : Mary Buckley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108331081

Get Book

The Politics of Unfree Labour in Russia by Mary Buckley Pdf

How, and why, did human trafficking out of Russia escalate at the beginning of the twenty-first century? Why did some labour migrants from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan find happy work situations in Russia whereas others became trapped in forced labour? This book focuses on human trafficking out of the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet state and on labour migration into it from Central Asia, and on some internal movement. It looks at the socio-economic reasons behind labour flows and examines key social, political, legislative and policy responses. Discussion includes how the Russian press covers these topics and what politicians, experts and the public think about them. Based on interviews, polls and focus groups in Russia, this book is rich in original research which highlights different Russian perspectives on exploitation in unfree labour. It gives examples of entrapment in prostitution, construction work, on farms, and in begging rings.

Author : Regional Thematic Working Group on International Migration Including Human Trafficking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : East Asia
ISBN : UCBK:C121227757

Get Book

Situation Report on International Migration in East and South-East Asia by Regional Thematic Working Group on International Migration Including Human Trafficking Pdf

Author : United Nations
Publisher : UN
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9211304113

Get Book

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2020 by United Nations Pdf

The 2020 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is the fifth of its kind mandated by the General Assembly through the 2010 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. It covers more than 130 countries and provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels, based primarily on trafficking cases detected between 2017 and 2019. As UNODC has been systematically collecting data on trafficking in persons for more than a decade, trend information is presented for a broad range of indicators.

Author : Marco Borraccetti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319939797

Get Book

Labour Migration in Europe Volume II by Marco Borraccetti Pdf

Violence, deception, fraud and abuse have always been commonplace occurrences for migrants, not only in their final country of destination but also in their countries of origin and countries of transit. In today’s world, the link between mobility and security issues is ever-increasing. Acknowledging this, how can we work to protect and improve migrants’ rights? Is the protection for migrants offered by the EU sufficient as-is, or is a more integrated approach that requires greater cooperation from migrants’ country of origin called for? What role can the private sector play in all of this? In this book, Borraccetti brings together contributions that analyse how migrant exploitation can be combatted. All essays focus on the protection and promotion of human rights and pay particular attention to the rights of children and other vulnerable people.

Author : Mike Dottridge
Publisher : UN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9290686774

Get Book

Children on the Move by Mike Dottridge Pdf

Millions of children are on the move, both within and between countries, with or without their parents. The conditions under which movement takes place are often treacherous, putting migrant children, especially unaccompanied and separated children, at an increased risk of economic or sexual exploitation, abuse, neglect and violence. Policy responses to protect and support these migrant children are often fragmented and inconsistent and while children on the move have become a recognised part of today's global and mixed migration flows they are still largely invisible in debates on both child protection and migration.