“Fees and IDs: Tackling recruitment fees and confiscation of workers’ passports”

Institute for Human Rights & Business, September 2013 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Human trafficking and forced labour are huge problems on a global scale. An estimated 20.9 million men, women and children worldwide are in forced labour at any one time with 90% of these individuals exploited by businesses in the private economy. 14.2 million (68%) are victims […]

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“Exploited Dreams: Dispatches from Indian Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia”

Amnesty International India, 2014 Saudi Arabia has attracted more low-paid Indian migrants over the last 25 years than any other country in the Gulf region. Every day, close to 1,000 Indian low-wage migrant workers are provided with emigration clearances to travel to Saudi Arabia. They are recruited to work in cafeterias, supermarkets, construction sites, and

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“License to Exploit”

A Report on the Recruitment Practices & Problems Experienced by Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, October 2013 Lead Researcher: Rex Varona / Editor: Jose Juan V. Tordilla Publishers: Alliance for Progressive Labor; Labor Education & Research Network; Progressive Labor Union of Domestic Workers in Hong Kong; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung; Landsorganisasjonen i Norge, LO (LO-

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“The American Dream Up for Sale: A blueprint for ending international labor recruitment abuse”

International Labour Recruitment Working Group, February 2013 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Each year, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are recruited to work in the United States on temporary work visas. Internationally recruited workers are employed in a wide range of US industries, from low-wage jobs in agriculture and landscaping to higher-wage jobs in technology,

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“Made in Canada: How the Law Constructs Migrant Workers’ Insecurity”

Fay Faraday, Metcalfe Foundation, September 2012 In the past decade, Canada’s labour market has undergone a significant shift to rely increasingly on migrant workers who come to Canada from around the globe on time-limited work permits to provide labour in an expanding range of industries. Since 2000, the number of migrant workers employed in Canada

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

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

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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