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Alleged forced migrant labor trafficking investigated in California forests

4 August 2014, News10ABC.net Thousands of miles from home, stained with toxic chemicals and threatened with guns, workers say they couldn’t leave even if they wanted to. The migrant workers, all from Mexico, were in a foreign country and they say their passports had been confiscated by company supervisors. That’s part of a story told […]

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1,959 Nepali workers return from Malaysia

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7 August 2014, eKantipur.com […] The Malaysian government has been granting amnesty to foreign workers who were staying in the country illegally so as to allow the latter group to return home after surrendering at the Immigration Department and paying a certain amount – 400 Malaysian Ringgit – as fine. Some 3,000 foreign workers staying

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Policy Brief: Labor Migration Agents: Regulation, Accountability and Alternatives

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Policy Brief No. 5, 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 extensive use of unregulated labor migration agents is a common policy challenge in migrant labor origin countries. While agents provide migrant workers with much-needed

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“Why Foreign Workers are Reluctant to Raise Pay Issues”

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17 July 2014, The Straits Times The Migrant Workers’ Centre made several critical points about fairness for migrant workers (“Greater protection and care for migrant workers needed”; last Saturday). The recruitment process is particularly arduous for workers in the construction and marine sectors, and charges from agents, middlemen and training centres often come up to more

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“Home no Haven for Migrant Workers”

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17 July 2014, Laignee Barron, Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan, The Phnom Penh Post Almost all of the men from Banteay Chhmar commune in Banteay Meanchey province are gone, swept back over the border to Thailand even more suddenly than their brief homecoming last month. Nearly 380 of the commune residents, mostly men, had returned from

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Recruitment firm gets second suspension from POEA

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25 June 2014, GMA News A recruitment agency suspended by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration got into deeper trouble after its president admitted his company had an unlicensed firm doing actual recruitment.POEA administrator Hans Leo Cacdac on Tuesday said he ordered a second case lodged against Memere International Recruitment Company Inc., after its president paid

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