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Patterns of Exploitation: Understanding Migrant Worker Rights in Advanced Democracies

Patterns of Exploitation: Understanding Migrant Worker Rights in Advanced Democracies

Author: Anna K. Boucher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197599112
Published In: April 2023
Format: Hardback
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Numbering an estimated 164 million globally, migrant workers are an essential component of contemporary businesses. Despite their number and indispensability in the global economy, migrant workers frequently lack the legal protections enjoyed by other workers. They work in sectors where jobs are isolated, and they lack advocates and trade union representation. They may also be undocumented, further eroding their capacity to advance their rights. Migrant workers suffer workplace violations that range from underpayment of wages and unsafe work conditions to sexual assault and industrial manslaughter. How much does this exploitation vary across different countries? What explains differences and similarities among migrant worker destinations?

In Patterns of Exploitation, Anna K. Boucher answers these questions by looking at workplace violations across four major immigration countries: the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Incorporating interviews, the Migrant Worker Rights Database, and in-depth analysis of court cases, Boucher uses legal storytelling to document individual migrant experiences and assess the patterns of exploitation that emerge in case narratives. Migrant experiences vary across ethnicity, gender, occupational sector, visa status, trade union membership, and enforcement policy, as well as the industrial relations systems within a destination country. Boucher lays out the kinds of exploitation to which migrants are subjected, the patterns discernible within migrant workers' experiences, and the solutions that can best protect migrants against workplace violations. This unique mixed-methods approach provides a novel understanding of migrant workplace violations across a variety of immigration contexts.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. What is exploitation?

2. "A member of the family?": Gender, Domestic Work, and Violations

3. Ethnicity, Race, Country of Origin, and the Challenges of Anti-discrimination Claims for Migrant Workers

4. A Fatal Fall: Workplace Death, Injury, and Employment

5. Labor Rights or Immigration Enforcement?: Conflict in Protecting Undocumented Migrant Workers

6. Regulation and Migrant Vulnerability: The Role of Visas in Workplace Violations

7. Decertification, Black-listing, and Circular Migration: The Challenges of Trade Union Representation for Migrant Workers

8. Strategic or General Enforcement of Migrant Worker Rights

Conclusion: Understanding the Patterns of Migrant Exploitation

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