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From despair to hope? Securing rights for Haitian migrants in the new Brazil
As Lula is sworn in as President, Heaven Crawley reflects on what his election might mean for Haitians living in Brazil, for whom access to rights and opportunities for integration have proved elusive.
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Access to justice for migrants: Can academics do more?
Should academics remain content with merely producing academic outputs as they research and study issues of access to justice in migration? Or can they and should they engage more actively in addressing these injustice? MIDEQ researchers and partners share their views.
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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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Teaching migrant workers’ rights using lessons from history: The ‘Ghana Must Go’ painting competition project
Migrant workers’ rights are important. This needs to be communicated to children from an early age. A painting competition to mark the ‘Ghana Must Go’ deportation order of 1983 served as a perfect opportunity to reinforce this message in Ghana.
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