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  • 10 - IOM and Ethical Labour Recruitment

  • from Part II - IOM in Action
  • Edited by Megan Bradley, McGill University, Montréal, Cathryn Costello, University of Oxford, Angela Sherwood, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book:
    IOM Unbound?
    Published online:
    15 June 2023
    Print publication:
    29 June 2023, pp 270-296
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    This chapter examines the role of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in global migration governance and its implications for migrant workers’ rights and well-being. As global lead migration agency for the U.N. system, is well-positioned to influence whether and how States address the significant gaps in international migration law and institutions that enable the continued exploitation and abuse of migrant workers worldwide. This chapter explores IOM’s potential to advance migrant workers’ rights by examining an IOM initiative explicitly established to do so: IOM’s International Recruitment Integrity System’s (IRIS), which seeks to promote ethical cross-border recruitment. IOM’s approach tends to prioritize increasing labor migration to harness “the developmental potential of migration” – but too often at the cost of migrants’ rights. Moreover, IOM ultimately encourages further privatization of area of governance that experts—and, indeed, ethical recruiters themselves—believe requires, instead, strong state involvement in order to meaningfully advance migrant workers’ rights protection.