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

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”

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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“OFWs seen to benefit as PHL votes for ILO protocol, recommendation vs. forced labor”

16 June 2014, GMA News Online In what could be a boon for overseas Filipino workers, the Philippines has thrown its support behind the International Labor Organization’s adoption of a protocol and recommendation against forced labor.In a news release on Monday, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said the Philippines cast an affirmative vote for the

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“Burmese Migrants Arrested, But Not Main Target in Thai Crackdown”

16 June 2014, The Irrawaddy CHIANG MAI — A heavy crackdown on undocumented migrants in Thailand has so far mostly targeted Cambodian workers, although there have been frequent reports of arrests of Burmese workers, according to organizations working with Burmese migrants in Thailand. “There is no big crackdown on Burmese immigrant workers like on Cambodians,”

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