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Migrant Worker Exploitation

Migrant Worker Exploitation is a structural labor rights violation characterized by the systemic denial of fair wages, legal protections, and humane working conditions to migrant laborers, distinguished from general labor exploitation by its reliance on the precarious legal, social, and economic vulnerabilities inherent to cross-border migration status.

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12.9K

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469

Authors

257

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2017–2026

101

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302

Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers

Bridget Anderson · Work Employment and Society · 2010 · 974 citations

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Hyper-precarious lives

Hannah Lewis, Peter Dwyer, Stuart Hodkinson et al. · Progress in Human Geography · 2014 · 551 citations · Full text

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Temporary migration, precarious employment and unfree labour relations: Exploring the ‘continuum of exploitation’ in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program

Kendra Strauss, Siobhán McGrath · Geoforum · 2016 · 263 citations · Full text

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The Global Financial Crisis and Migrant Workers in China: ‘There is No Future as a Labourer; Returning to the Village has No Meaning’

Kam Wing Chan · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research · 2010 · 200 citations

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Troubling freedom: Migration, debt, and modern slavery

Julia O’Connell Davidson · Migration Studies · 2013 · 200 citations · Full text

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Authors

469

  1. LW
    Louise Waite

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 811 citations

    8

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  2. HL
    Hannah Lewis

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 793 citations

    8

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  3. BF
    Bassina Farbenblum

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    5 publications · 118 citations

    5

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  4. OG
    Ohad Green

    Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    4 publications · 108 citations

    4

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  5. LP
    Letizia Palumbo

    Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

    4 publications · 109 citations

    4

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Institutions

257

  1. University of Leeds

    Leeds, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    2.1K citations

  2. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    273 citations

  3. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    307 citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    457 citations

  5. York University

    Toronto, Canada

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    222 citations

  6. Bar-Ilan University

    Ramat Gan, Israel

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    216 citations

  7. University of York

    York, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    673 citations

  8. International Labour Organization

    Geneva, Switzerland

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    218 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

    JEMS · 7 publications · 377 citations

    7

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  2. Work Employment and Society

    WES · 6 publications · 1.4K citations

    6

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  3. International Migration

    6 publications · 278 citations

    6

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  4. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 5 publications · 138 citations

    5

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  5. International Migration Review

    IMR · 5 publications · 244 citations

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