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Exploitative Labour Relations and Legal Consciousness of Irregular Migrant Workers in the Netherlands

Document number
2730
Date
2011
Title
Exploitative Labour Relations and Legal Consciousness of Irregular Migrant Workers in the Netherlands
Author/publisher
Tamara Butter, Marleen Verhagen
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures, Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
Summary
The study looks into the problem of migrants as potential victims of trafficking in the Netherlands. It presents a theoretical framework on international and national law, jurisprudence and literature on migration and trafficking themes. Moreover, it offers an insight on the migrants prospective regarding labour rights through primary interviews with irregular migrants previously working in the Netherlands and migrants held as aliens in detention centres.
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