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The Key Factors that Drive Exploitation of Migrant Workers
45 mins·15:00, 4 Dec 2025
The Key Factors that Drive Exploitation of Migrant Workers
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Guest: Adrian Pereira (Director), North South Initiative (NSI)
United Nations experts have warned that there is “widespread and systematic” exploitation and deception affecting Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia. In their statement, they highlight excessive and fraudulent recruitment fees, false job offers, passport confiscation, forced labour and forced return. Simply put, this is debt bondage, or to put it even more plainly, modern-day slavery.
But what is driving this? How much do poverty, desperation, the lack of opportunity in home countries, and the reliance on cheap labour in the Malaysian economy contribute to and maintain this system?
In this episode, we speak to Adrian Pereira, who’s the Director of the North South Initiative (NSI), about corruption, the imbalance of power, inequality and the international division of labour.
Presenter: Dashran Yohan
Producer: Dashran Yohan
the bigger picturebeyond the ballot boxworkersmigrant workersforeign workersremittancesconstructionlabour rights
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