Recruitment

Fay Faraday

Chapter 74 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, 2025, pp 434-439 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In the migration context, recruitment refers to the process by which migration intermediaries match employers in one country with job seekers and migrant workers from another country. International labour and human rights norms prescribe that employers must bear all costs related to transnational labour recruitment. The primary concern at the level of migration governance is developing practices that securely establish and enforce ethical recruitment practices. In a global economy marked by structural inequality and a profound imbalance of information, wealth, mobility, and power between recruitment agencies and migrant workers, reaching this objective remains a challenge. Globally, migrant workers who migrate transnationally to low-wage jobs are commonly subjected to predatory charges and recruitment practices that, at their worst, result in debt bondage, labour trafficking, and forced labour. Recruitment agencies are increasingly involved in brokering the placement of international post-secondary students, and predatory recruitment practices can similarly occur in this context.

Keywords: Migrant workers; Migration intermediaries; Migration industry; International human rights; Labour trafficking; Human trafficking; Forced labour; International students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802204148
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