Migration, Labour, and Human Trafficking - Ms Christine Nathan
Oct 17, 2022
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Ms Christine Nathan, President of the International Catholic Migrant Commission (ICMC), explaining how migration is a big business touching over a million lives, spoke about the many socio-economic struggles, attached problems of human trafficking, unsafe jobs, slave labour and discrimination migrants face. Ms Nathan also provided avenues through which the Church could help; by campaigning for better contracts, human rights, safer working conditions, more clarity about jobs and countries, creating decent work opportunities, and making migration a choice, and not a necessity.
https://casinomagenta.com came to mind when reading about how migration often becomes a necessity rather than a choice, since the gap between wanting to move and being forced to is where so much exploitation hides. The point about campaigning for clearer job information before people leave really stuck with me, as I've seen how vague recruitment promises leave workers with no leverage once they arrive. What struck me most was the idea of decent work at home as the real solution, because no amount of contract reform fixes the problem if people still have no option but to leave.