About the project
This project aims to understand the plight of forced migrant labourers stranded in transit and destination countries. It has three specific objectives:
- To extend academic literature on forced migration through a greater consideration of the situations of trafficked persons and other forced migrant labourers;
- To utilise knowledge gained to improve responses to stranded forced migrant labourers through stakeholder engagement in transit, origin and destination countries;
- To conduct the research in a manner consistent with the principles of a participatory approach and critical feminist principles.
The above objectives will focus on case studies of migrant fishing crews in the offshore (or distant waters) fisheries sector in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Indonesia, as well as the exploitation of migrant workers in the domestic work sector in Nepal. These workers are increasingly experiencing multiple displacements across borders and a lack of supranational mechanisms to protect them in situations of 'strandedness.'
Ethics Approval
Approval for this project has been obtained from La Trobe University, Australia, and Brunel University London, United Kingdom (for the Nepal component), respectively.
Funding Declaration
We would like to clarify that this project has been funded by Gerda Henkel Foundation
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