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‘The biggest problem we are facing is the running away problem’: recruitment and the paradox of facilitating the mobility of immobile workers
This article analyses the relationship between domestic work placement agencies in Jordan and Lebanon and their clients (the employers) as they negotiate the recruitment of women from Bangladesh. It addresses the mechanisms of how exploitative, controlling practices are constructed and normalised by agencies in their everyday interactions with their clients as well as with workers.
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Creative explorations on ‘Access to justice’
Using music and song, movement and dance, and textiles and costume as language, this blog reflects on how we test and communicate new artistic perspectives on MIDEQ’s research relating to ‘access to justice’.
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Access to justice for migrants: Can academics do more?
Should academics remain content with merely producing academic outputs as they research and study issues of access to justice in migration? Or can they and should they engage more actively in addressing these injustice? MIDEQ researchers and partners share their views.
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Who is a refugee? Understanding Europe’s diverse responses to the 2015 and the 2022 refugee arrivals
In this piece, we have referred not only to geographic proximity but also to the perception of Ukrainians as culturally and ethnically similar to hosting societies in the EU as a key driver of the welcoming attitudes towards refugees from the region.
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