The Electronics Sector in Malaysia: A Case Study in Migrant Workers’ Risk of Forced Labor
- Document number
- 3116
- Date
- May 2012
- Title
- The Electronics Sector in Malaysia: A Case Study in Migrant Workers’ Risk of Forced Labor
- Author/publisher
- Verite
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Malaysia, electronics industry, migrant, migrant workers, recruitment, debt bondage, forced labour, bonded labour, Southeast Asia, corporations, CSR
- Summary
Conditions of forced labor exist in Malaysia’s electronics industry. For the past ten years, Verité has seen and documented a distressing trend—migrant workers in Malaysia electronics factories recounting disturbingly similar stories of recruitment into the sector under conditions of deception, debt bondage, harassment and abuse, and other situations that can lead to forced labor.