Patterns of Exploitation

Anna K. Boucher is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics and Public Policy at the University of Sydney. She is a global migration expert, with a focus on the ways migration intersects with public policy and comparative politics. Her research also covers gender diversity, inequality, and labor market and regulatory change. She has written three books on migration that cover skilled immigration, gender diversity, and workplace exploitation, as well as numerous articles and scholarly book chapters.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. What is exploitation? 2. "A member of the family?": Gender, Domestic Work, and Violations 3. Ethnicity, Race, Country of Origin, and the Challenges of Anti-discrimination Claims for Migrant Workers 4. A Fatal Fall: Workplace Death, Injury, and Employment5. Labor Rights or Immigration Enforcement?: Conflict in Protecting Undocumented Migrant Workers6. Regulation and Migrant Vulnerability: The Role of Visas in Workplace Violations7. Decertification, Black-listing, and Circular Migration: The Challenges of Trade Union Representation for Migrant Workers8. Strategic or General Enforcement of Migrant Worker Rights Conclusion: Understanding the Patterns of Migrant ExploitationInterview schedule References

Boucher has written an immensely useful treatise on how a precarious, temporary, immigration status, or the lack of a valid immigration status, impacts the workplace rights that workers in four key high-income jurisdictions are able to exercise and enforce in practice. The Migrant Worker Rights Database, created by Boucher, provides a new source of data that will inform scholars and advocates alike about how different legal frameworks may facilitate or hinder the ability of migrants to enforce their rights. Boucher's findings will ultimately be invaluable for efforts to push for structural changes that better protect migrant workers around the world through regulation, legislation, and enforcement.