Policy Brief No. 3, June 2014 Centre for the Study of Labour & Mobility, University of New South Wales, Australia Authors: Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson, Sarah Paoleti, Bandita Sijapati, Bassina Farenblum SUMMARY The Foreign Employment Act 2007 (the Act) c... read more
Open Society Foundations: Bassina Farbenblum, Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson, Sarah Paoletti EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is the first comprehensive study of migrant workers’ access to justice in their country of origin. Using the case study of Indonesian m... read more
Open Society Foundations: Sarah Paoletti, Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson, Bandita Sijapati, Bassina Farbenblum EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Every month, nearly 16,000 Nepalis travel to the Gulf States for temporary work, and thousands more go to other countries in the Mi... read more
Ray Jureidini, Qatar Foundation, 2014 This report examines foreign labour recruitment into Qatar. The report is based on a study conducted to ascertain the financial and procedural circumstances that give rise to basic human rights violations during labou... read more
The Gulf Labour Markets & Migration (GLMM) is an international independent, non-partisan, non-profit joint programme of a major Gulf think tank and a globally renowned academic migration centre. The programme provides data, analyses, and recommendati... read more
International Labour Recruitment Working Group, February 2013 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Each year, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are recruited to work in the United States on temporary work visas. Internationally recruited workers are empl... read more