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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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Why the UK-Rwanda asylum deal risks harming global standards
Heaven Crawley reflects on the newly announced asylum partnership agreement between the UK and Rwanda and its implications for and ramifications on global standards on refugees and asylum-seekers.
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Creative explorations on ‘Access to justice’
Using music and song, movement and dance, and textiles and costume as language, this blog reflects on how we test and communicate new artistic perspectives on MIDEQ’s research relating to ‘access to justice’.
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