7/16/2020 Call for an Urgent Justice Mechanism for Repatriated Migrant Workers Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development Menu HOME ABOUT NEWS CONTACT RSS Feed STUDY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS PUBLICATIONS CALL FOR AN URGENT JUSTICE MECHANISM FOR REPATRIATED MIGRANT WORKERS July 3, 2020 · by macimide · in Announcements EVENTS UPCOMING EVENTS Symposium on Health, Migration, and Integration | Maastricht University all events NEWSLETTER If you wish to receive information about MACIMIDE and related events, call for papers, research news, vacancies and more, please subscribe to our Newsletter. Email The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted millions of migrant workers in destination countries, many of whom have experienced job loss or non-payment of wages, been forced by employers to take unpaid leave or reduced wages, been confined in poor living conditions, and with little or no engagement in the work By subscribing to this newsletter, I accept the privacy rules of this site. options before them. Many migrant workers also struggle with the dilemma of exercising their right to return in these circumstances, while others remain stranded Subscribe in cities without access to services or support, or in border areas, living in precarious conditions posing as quarantine facilities. Countries of destination and origin have begun repatriation procedures of these workers, without giving thought to their predicament and presenting the returns as inevitable. Millions will be repatriated to situations of debt bondage as they will be MACIMIDE CALENDAR << Jul 2020 >> M T W T F S S 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 Under the above conditions, repatriation poses additional challenges, as, without 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 proper controls, employers might take advantage of mass repatriation programs to 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 terminate and return workers who have not been paid their due compensation, 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 forced to pay off recruitment fees and costs, despite returning empty handed. wages and benefits. Without ensuring that companies and employers are doing their due diligence to protect and fulfill the human rights and labour rights of repatriated 1 migrant workers, states across the migration corridor become complicit in overseeing https://macimide.maastrichtuniversity.nl/call-for-an-urgent-justice-mechanism-for-repatriated-migrant-workers/ 1/3

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