Essays about: "migrant worker"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the words migrant worker.

  1. 1. The Effect of Mobile Financial Service on Migrant Worker’s Money Transfer Behavior in Bangladesh

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Moshfika Haque; Julius Businge; [2023-06-01]
    Keywords : Money Transfer; MFS; Migrant Workers;

    Abstract : Mobile financial service (MFS) works as a vital money transfer instrument for migrant workers in developing countries like Bangladesh, where the poor migrant workers had no access to financial institutions like banks before 2010. Before introducing MFS, migrant workers used to transfer money through friends/relatives, travel agents, agents/brokers, couriers, postal service etc. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. 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]
    Keywords : ;

    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

  5. 4. Historical ecology of the Greater Burgan oilfield : economy, technology, politics, and workers

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Saleh Youssef; [2022]
    Keywords : Oil extraction; The Greater Burgan Oilfield; Petrocultures; Assemblage thinking; Kuwait econ-omy; Oil peak; Migrant labour; Environmental History;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the current state of crude oil extraction and production in the Greater Burgan oilfield, Kuwait's largest and oldest oilfield. This thesis is based on interviews with oilfield workers, analyses of official documents from the Kuwaiti government and the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), and my own experience as an oilfield worker in Kuwait. READ MORE

  6. 5. Between Guardian and Punisher : The Role of the German Inspectorate Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit for Migrant Workers

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

    Author : Tobias Seitz; [2022]
    Keywords : Migrant Worker; Labour Migration; Labour Exploitation; Labour Inspectorate; Trade Unions; Unions; Germany; Undeclared Work; Unlawful Employment; Minimum Wage; Political Economy; Regime Theory; Border Regime; Deportation; Ethnography; Counseling; Arbeitsmigration; Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit; Schwarzarbeit; Zoll; Illegale Beschäftigung; Ausbeutung; Gewerkschaft; Mindestlohn; Abschiebung; Regimetheorie; Grenzregime; Ethnographie; Beratung;

    Abstract : Many in Germany argue that the minimum wage and other protective provisions for migrant workers will only be effective when workplace inspections by the enforcement body "Finanzkontrolle Schwarzarbeit" (FKS) are stepped up. For this reason, a novel cooperation agreement between the FKS and migrant workers' counseling offices has been signed, in June 2021. READ MORE