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Safe Migration or Securitized Borders? How Anti-Smuggling Policies Shape Migrant Workers’ Rights

Safe Migration or Securitized Borders? How Anti-Smuggling Policies Shape Migrant Workers’ Rights

Debates over “safe migration” increasingly collide with the reality of securitized borders. Governments around the world justify anti-smuggling policies as necessary to combat organised crime and protect migrants from exploitation. However, in reality, such actions

Redrawing the Frontiers: How Europe’s New Border Pact Could Reshape Migration Forever

Redrawing the Frontiers: How Europe’s New Border Pact Could Reshape Migration Forever

The ‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ talk about the New Border Pact of Europe that is going to change everything that has been going on for quite some time. Essentially, the constitutive migration crisis has been shaping the political

Returned Migrant Workers in Cambodia: Hunger, Debt, and the Struggle for Reintegration

Returned Migrant Workers in Cambodia: Hunger, Debt, and the Struggle for Reintegration

When high numbers of Cambodian migrant labourers come home at the same time, be it because economies slow, labour laws get tougher in other countries, or crisis, whole communities are left in the position of

Migrant Workers Returning from UAE With Kidney Failure Due to Extreme Temperatures

Migrant Workers Returning from UAE With Kidney Failure Due to Extreme Temperatures

Over the last few years, newspapers have reported that migrant workers in the UAE and other Gulf countries have come back with serious cases of kidney related illnesses that can be attributed to long term

Philippines OFWs in Israel: Relocation & Trauma Support After 2025 Border Tensions

Philippines OFWs in Israel: Relocation & Trauma Support After 2025 Border Tensions

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Israel have once again found themselves on the frontlines of conflict, caught between their livelihoods abroad and safety concerns back home. After the 2025 border tensions escalated, many Filipino caregivers,

Why the UN Migration Committee’s 2025 Recommendations Could Transform Migrant-Worker Rights Worldwide

Why the UN Migration Committee’s 2025 Recommendations Could Transform Migrant-Worker Rights Worldwide

The 2025 recommendations of the UN Migration Committee represent a change in the way governments are being encouraged to treat migrant workers, as low-wage labourers to high-skilled professionals. The guidance aims at ending the exploitation,

The Changing Migration Policies in GCC Countries in 2025 

The Changing Migration Policies in GCC Countries in 2025 

GCC migration policies in 2025 are undergoing a noticeable shift as Gulf states balance economic diversification, labour market needs, and demographic concerns. Previously dependent on high populations of low-skilled migrant workers, such countries as Saudi

Illegal Migrants to Face Clothing and Mouth Searches for Phones at UK Ports

Illegal Migrants to Face Clothing and Mouth Searches for Phones at UK Ports

The introduction of new UK border regulations will enable the officers in ports to conduct more intrusive searches on the suspected migrants who are believed to have gotten into the country illegally. With such measures,

What Is Kafala System? Where This System Is Still in Practice?

What Is Kafala System? Where This System Is Still in Practice?

The Kafala system is a sponsorship-based employment model that regulates the labor of migrants in several Middle Eastern countries. It has been a major topic of discussion for its stringent rules and human rights issues.

Fake Job Racket Targeting Migrants (Gulf, Malaysia, Singapore)

Fake Job Racket Targeting Migrants (Gulf, Malaysia, Singapore)

Migrant workers hailing from South Asia and Southeast Asia are increasingly falling for false job scams which were once considered sophisticated and were aimed at people wanting jobs in Gulf states, Malaysia, and Singapore. The