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“Profiting from the Precarious: How Recruitment Practices Exploit Migrant Workers”

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Fay Faraday, Metcalfe Foundation, April 2014 Over the past decade, Canadian employers have increasingly demanded access to a “flexible” workforce of transnational migrant workers. Canadian laws and policies have responded, speeding the flow of workers to Canada with precarious temporary immigration status. Since 2000, the population of temporary migrant workers in Canada has more than […]

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Nurses’ experiences of recruitment and migration from developing countries: A phenomenological approach

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Paul H. Troy, Laura A. Wyness, Eilish McAuliffe: Human Resources for Health 2007, 5:15 ABSTRACT Background: There is growing concern globally at the current flows of nurse migration, particularly from low-income to middle and high-income countries. Recruitment practices of many countries such as Ireland are thought to be fuelling this rate of migration. This paper

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Statement: Strengthen Regulation of Foreign Labor Recruiters to Prevent Human Trafficking & Forced Labor

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ATEST: Alliance to End Slavery & Trafficking (USA) Legislation to strengthen regulation of foreign labor recruiters is an essential element in the prevention of human trafficking and forced labor. Labor recruiters are often complicit or directly involved in the trafficking of workers, exploiting U.S. nonimmigrant visa programs. These recruiters, who operate in a climate of

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IOM & MPI Report: “Regulating Private Recruitment in the Asia-Middle East Labour Migration Corridor”

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Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, August 2012 The Middle East remains one of the most sought-after and competitive labour markets in the world. Here, the supply of labour overwhelmingly outweighs demand, making it extremely difficult to control recruitment practices. Migrant workers, many of whom are fully aware of the risks involved, are willing to pay a stiff

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OECD & EC Report: “Immigration & Labour Shortages: Evaluation of Needs and Limits of Selection Policies in the Recruitment of Foreign Labour”

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15474016.pdf Report by Marco Doudeijns & Jean-Christophe Dumont Brussels January 2003 This document presents the result of studies recently carried out in a range of OECD Member countries on labour shortages and the role that migration can play to alleviate labour shortages. In spite of the methodological problems, that may be involved in assessing labour

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ILO: Cross-Border Labour Migration in Cambodia: Considerations for the national employment policy

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ILO Asia-Pacific Working Paper Series, October 2013 Authors: Max Tunon & Khleang Rim ABSTRACT It is projected that Cambodia’s labour force will grow by 22 per cent between 2007 and 2015. An estimated 250,000 to 300,000 new young workers are entering the labour force each year, for whom decent employment opportunities need to be found.

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Gaming the System: Guest Worker Visa Programs and Professional and Technical Workers in the U.S.

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Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (2012) Executive Summary An array of skilled worker visas, including the H-1B, L, and J, is available to employers seeking guest workers. In FY2010 alone, over 350,000 guest worker visas, as well as OPT, were approved for employers hiring skilled workers. For the last 30 years, employers have expanded their

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