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Why Have We Been Unable to Regulate the Merchants of Migration?
By Edward Mohr The recruitment of low-wage migrant workers across borders in many ways has changed little over the last century. In 1916, the US Department of Labor stated that the newly arrived immigrant is reliant on private-sector recruiters who always hold out glowing promises of work but most often exploit mobile workers for financial gain. Over 100 years later, recruitment agencies continue to systematically abuse low-wage migrant workers seeking work across borders around the world, hurting not only vulnerable individuals but also the economies of the countries where mobile workers most often work and those they originate from.
