Recruitment

Author ORCID Identifier

Fay Faraday: 0000-0003-3519-9315

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-22-2025

Source Publication

Chetail, Vincent, Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025

Keywords

Migrant workers; Migration intermediaries; Migration industry; International human rights; Labour trafficking; Human trafficking; Forced labour; International students

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.

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