Essays about: "migrant workers rights"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 38 essays containing the words migrant workers rights.

1. 1. Human Rights Violations in the Name of Football : A Qualitative Content Analysis on the Human Rights Violations against Migrant Workers during the preparation and delivery of the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar

   University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokrati

   Author : Moa Johansson; [2023]
   Keywords : Migrant workers; Football; World Cup; Human Rights; FIFA; Qatar; Forced Labor;

   Abstract : The 2022 FIFA World Cup for men's football has received massive criticism since it was announced in December 2010 that Qatar would host it. With a significant history of human rights violations, many were shocked that Qatar was elected. READ MORE

3. 2. Regional Migrant Workers in Thailand: Precarity and Resistance

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : My Stenquist; [2023]
   Keywords : Labour law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In recent decades, Thailand's economy has grown significantly and in one generation the country has gone from being classified as a low-income country to an upper-middle-income country. Combined with an ageing population, this has created labour shortages particularly in sectors with many low-skilled jobs, such as fishing, agriculture and manufacturing. READ MORE

4. 3. 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

5. 4. 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

6. 5. 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