Essays about: "migrant labour"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 83 essays containing the words migrant labour.

1. 6. Enforcement Against Exploitation, Working Hard or Hardly Working? : Exploring How Canadian Policy Discourse Problematizes the Labour Exploitation of Migrant Workers

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Gavin Kierulf; [2023]
   Keywords : Labour Exploitation; un Freedom; Labour Migration; Precarity; Social Harm; Canada; Canadian Labour MIgration;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to outline how the labour exploitation of migrant workers is problematized in contemporary Canadian labour migration policy discourse; the consequences of this problematization(s), and possibilities for creating an alternative critical space for discourse. Using concepts of (social) harm, (un)freedom, and (hyper)precarity as departure points for analysis, this project endeavours to untangle problematizations of migrant worker exploitation from their representations in Canadian policy discourse through a post-structural policy analysis. READ MORE

3. 7. Exploitation of migrant workers in agriculture and public interventions to protect social rights : A case study of the Su.Pr.Eme. and P.I.U.Su.Pr.Eme. projects in Apulia region

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Carlo Bettini; [2023]
   Keywords : Social interventions; public policy; evaluation; migration; Italy; Caporalato;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the issue of vulnerable migrant employment and public policies in the Apulia region of southern Italy, with a focus on the EU-funded projects P.I.U. Su. READ MORE

4. 8. Sports & politics : Legacy, rights, and labour within the soft power mechanisms of the United Bid 2026

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Antonio-Adrian Ioana; [2023]
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   Abstract : The 2022 World Cup, a major opportunity for Qatar to enhance its soft power, had recently concluded with a victory that was as heavily contested as it was celebrated, namely the crowning of Argentina as world champions. Argentina’s win comes as a culmination for over a decade of continuous debates on critical topics that disempowered Qatar on the global stage, such as the exploitation of labor during the preparation for the 2022 WC which led to thousands of deaths of migrant workers, or the briberies offered by the Qatari government in order to influence the votes for the hosting rights. READ MORE

5. 9. Creation of a Common : Political Subjectivities of Staffing Agency Mediated Transnational Thai Workers

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

   Author : Therese Christoffersson; [2022]
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   Abstract : This thesis investigates to what extent staffing agency mediation and employment produces a political subjectivity of transnational Thai workers in Thailand. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to a general discussion on how the disaggregation of borders and staffing agencies as border agents affects political subjectivities of transnational workers. READ MORE

6. 10. Along the paths of berry pickers : ascertaining the roles and positions of seasonal migrant berry pickers in Sweden through Swedish media

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Anudini Wijayarathna; [2022]
   Keywords : Swedish wild-berry industry; seasonal migrant berry pickers; Thai berry pickers; free tourist pickers; roles; socio-economic positions; labour conditions;

   Abstract : Sweden is one of the northern European countries that receive seasonal migrant labour annually from Thai and free/tourist pickers for wild-berry picking in rural northern forests and lands of Sweden. Both Thai and free/tourist pickers are subjected to different irregularities and unfair labour conditions within the Swedish wild-berries industry. READ MORE