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Migration Intermediaries and Codes of Conduct: Temporary Migrant Workers in Australian Horticulture
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posted on 2018-12-01, 00:00 authored by Elsa UnderhillElsa Underhill, D Groutsis, D van Den Broek, M RimmerOver recent decades, developments in network governance have seen governments around the world cede considerable authority and responsibility to commercial migration intermediaries for recruiting and managing temporary migrant labour. Correspondingly, a by-product of network governance has been the emergence of soft employment regulation in which voluntary codes of conduct supplement hard (enforceable) legal employment standards. This paper explores these developments in the context of temporary migrant workers employed in Australian horticulture. First the paper analyses the growing use of temporary migrant labour in this industry. It then describes how different types of intermediaries interact with this workforce. The paper then outlines both hard and soft employment regulations, and contrasts them with actual employment conditions, questioning how a network governance approach has affected this vulnerable workforce. The paper concludes that changes in network governance of migration and employment relations have emasculated formal legal regulation, leaving market forces to operate without effective or ethical constraints at the expense of the public good.
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Journal of Business EthicsVolume
153Issue
3Pagination
675 - 689Publisher
Springer NetherlandsLocation
Dordrecht, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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0167-4544eISSN
1573-0697Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
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