Technology for Migrant Worker Engagement

Kintominas, A; Berg, L; Farbenblum, B

Technology for Migrant Worker Engagement

Kintominas, A Berg, L

Farbenblum, B

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Publisher:: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology, 2021, pp. 236-250
Issue Date:: 2021-12-07

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dc.contributor.author	Kintominas, A
dc.contributor.author	Berg, L https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8686-6283
dc.contributor.author	Farbenblum, B
dc.contributor.editor	McAuliffe, M
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-25T03:49:31Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-25T03:49:31Z
dc.date.issued	2021-12-07
dc.identifier.citation	Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology, 2021, pp. 236-250
dc.identifier.isbn	1839100613
dc.identifier.isbn	9781839100611
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/153559
dc.description.abstract	This chapter explores the potential for leveraging increasing digital connectivity to better engage and empower migrant workers. It examines the growth of digital platforms in four domains: providing migrant workers with information on their legal rights and market conditions; empowering migrant workers to rate and review their employers and recruiters; promoting solidarity and collective organizing; and finally, supporting access to justice. Digital technology holds the promise to support the engagement of migrant workers more rapidly, cheaply and at greater scale. But, despite tendencies towards ‘tech-utopianism’, technological interventions are not a panacea and rarely transform the structural drivers of migrant workers’ precarity. The chapter therefore also considers the ethical and practical challenges, risks and trade-offs that these technological interventions bring. Ultimately, it concludes, digital initiatives are most likely to be successful where they are well-integrated into an organization’s broader (typically offline) programs with well-conceived theories of change.
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dc.title	Technology for Migrant Worker Engagement
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Abstract:

This chapter explores the potential for leveraging increasing digital connectivity to better engage and empower migrant workers. It examines the growth of digital platforms in four domains: providing migrant workers with information on their legal rights and market conditions; empowering migrant workers to rate and review their employers and recruiters; promoting solidarity and collective organizing; and finally, supporting access to justice. Digital technology holds the promise to support the engagement of migrant workers more rapidly, cheaply and at greater scale. But, despite tendencies towards ‘tech-utopianism’, technological interventions are not a panacea and rarely transform the structural drivers of migrant workers’ precarity. The chapter therefore also considers the ethical and practical challenges, risks and trade-offs that these technological interventions bring. Ultimately, it concludes, digital initiatives are most likely to be successful where they are well-integrated into an organization’s broader (typically offline) programs with well-conceived theories of change.

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