Publication | Migrant workers' wage offers: the paradox of the involvement of recruitment intermediaries

Dr. Bilesha Weeraratne has published a new paper in Migration Studies based on her research for one of INCITE’s REALM projects. The study looks at how the conduct of informal intermediaries between labor migrants and formal recruitment agents affects what migrants are ultimately promised in terms of wages and incentives. Its findings suggest that better informing potential migrants about the role, formal status, and implications of the involvement of these intermediaries would lead to better wage and incentive negotiations. This approach would contribute toward facilitating orderly, safe, regular, and responsible recruitment for labor migration envisioned by Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration.

Read the abstract here.