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Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations

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Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations

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Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations book

The Commodification of Illicit Flows

Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations

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Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations book

The Commodification of Illicit Flows
Edited ByAto Quayson, Antonela Arhin
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 9 March 2012
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203134733
Pages 192
eBook ISBN 9780203134733
Subjects Area Studies
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Quayson, A., & Arhin, A. (Eds.). (2012). Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations: The Commodification of Illicit Flows (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203134733

ABSTRACT

Although much literature on human trafficking focuses on sex trafficking, a great deal of human trafficking results from migrant workers, compelled - by economic deprivation in their home countries - to seek better life opportunities abroad, especially in agriculture, construction and domestic work. Such labour migration is sometimes legal and well managed, but sometimes not so – with migrant workers frequently threatened or coerced into entering debt bondage arrangements and ending up working in forced labour situations producing goods for illicit markets. This book fills a substantial gap in the existing literature given that labour trafficking is a much more subtle form of exploitation than sex trafficking. It discusses how far large multinational corporations are involved, whether intentionally or unintentionally, in human trafficking for the purposes of labour exploitation. They explore how far corporations are driven to seek cheap labour by the need to remain commercially competitive and examine how the problem often lies with corporations’ subcontractors, who are not as well controlled as they might be. The essays in the volume also outline and assess measures being taken by governments and international agencies to eradicate the problem.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

Edited ByAto Quayson, Antonela Arhin

chapter 1|11 pages

Corporate liability for violations of international human rights law

ByMOHAMED Y. MATTAR

chapter 2|18 pages

Trafficking for labour exploitation: getting the responses right

ByROGER PLANT

chapter 3|18 pages

The commodification of human smuggling and trafficking

ByLOUISE SHELLEY

chapter 4|15 pages

Child labour migrants or victims of labour trafficking?: a segmental approach

ByANTONELA ARHIN

chapter 5|20 pages

Displacing childhood: labour exploitation and child trafficking in sport

ByDARRAGH MCGEE

chapter 6|16 pages

Labor migration, human trafficking and multinational corporations within the ECOWAS region: challenges and opportunities

ByNDIORO NDIAYE

chapter 7|14 pages

Adults or children?: the case of trafficking children for purposes of exploitative labour in the fishing industry in Ghana

ByDANIEL KWEKU SAM

chapter 8|17 pages

Doing Canada’s dirty work: a critical analysis of law and policy to address labour exploitation trafficking

ByBETHANY HASTIE

chapter 9|14 pages

Minimum wage: an ally in the fight against human trafficking for labour exploitation? ANNE PAWLETTA AND PHILIPP SCHWERTMANN

Edited ByAto Quayson, Antonela Arhin

chapter 10|7 pages

Responding to labour trafficking: suggestions from experiences of local service providers

ByAMY STEPHENS, ROMESH HETTIARACHCHI AND SUNG HYUN YUN

chapter 11|16 pages

The programmatic approach to combating trafficking in human beings

ByRUUD HILGERS
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