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Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations

The Commodification of Illicit Flows
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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.

Author Biography:

Ato Quayson is Professor of English, and inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies (CDTS) at the University of Toronto, Canada. Antonela Arhin is the Executive Officer at the CDTS, and currently completing her PhD on child labour trafficking.
Release date NZ
March 5th, 2012
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributors
  • Edited by Antonela Arhin
  • Edited by Ato Quayson
Illustrations
1 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
192
ISBN-13
9780415595995
Product ID
10403041

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