Forced Labour Outcomes of Migration from Moldova: Rapid Assessment
- Document number
- 1027
- Date
- 2005
- Title
- Forced Labour Outcomes of Migration from Moldova: Rapid Assessment
- Author/publisher
- Eduard Mihailov, Mariska N.J. van der Linden, Shivaun Scanlan, International Centre for Women’s Rights Protection and Promotion
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Migration policy; Economic migration; Labour Migration, Migrant rights; Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour; Human rights approach; Labour exploitation; Economic migration, Irregular migration
- Summary
- The main objective of this research was to investigate forced labour resulting both from trafficking and non-trafficking related migration, in the context of irregular migration from Moldova. The study, based on questionnaires completed with returned migrants in Moldova, focus group interviews with selected migrants, and interviews with experts, focused on the profiles of trafficked and non-trafficked victims of forced labour as opposed to ‘successful’ migrants. The distinction between trafficked and nontrafficked victims of forced labour was adopted for the purpose of the study to differentiate between those deceived from the outset of the migration project by a recruiter, from those that were deceived and coerced at a later stage, in order to investigate different forms of coercion and routes into forced labour. Recruitment methods of both victims of trafficking and other migrants were investigated as well as ways in which victims escaped from the forced labour employment situation in the destination country. In short, the study aimed to establish objective criteria of forced labour as an outcome of human trafficking as well as of irregular migration.
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