ABSTRACT
This chapter focusses on employer sanctions and examines the functioning of sanctions as a policy tool for migration control. Bernsten and De Lange challenge the idea that employer sanctions, as executed in the Netherlands, are a tool for migration control and analyse the extent to which they are tools for labour market regulation and/or a tool for migrant worker protection. This chapter is based on extensive case file research at the Dutch labour inspectorate combined with selected Dutch case law to illustrate how little is known about the effectivity of employer sanctions as measures of migration controls to deter, expose, and curb irregular migration; to protect local business and workers from unfair competition; and to fight the exploitation of workers.
