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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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US migration policy changes towards Haiti: hope, conflict, and human capital loss
The US government recently announced a new, multi-pronged effort to curb undocumented migration at the US-Mexico border. What does this mean for Haitian migrants in the Americas?
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Shrinking the justice gap: Rethinking access to justice for migrants in the Global South
This paper explores the kinds of injustices migrants face in their everyday lives, considers whether these injustices can be attributed to specific relations and actors or to structural forms of oppression and inequality, and builds on existing research to outline how the global justice gap can be addressed for migrants (and other marginalized groups).
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Why the UK-Rwanda asylum deal risks harming global standards
Heaven Crawley reflects on the newly announced asylum partnership agreement between the UK and Rwanda and its implications for and ramifications on global standards on refugees and asylum-seekers.
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