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Chapter Eighteen - Migrants, Unfree Labour, and the Legal Construction of Domestic Servitude: Migrant Domestic Workers in the United Kingdom

from Part V - Rethinking Trafficking through Migration Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2017

Prabha Kotiswaran
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King's College London
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