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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"forced labour"”.
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Ideologies, Histories, and Representations of Work and Labour in Contemporary German-Language Literature: Forced Labour, Sex Work, and State Socialist Labour Ideologies
… histories, ideologies, and forms of work and labour that exist outside of the realm of conventional wage labour. My specific areas of focus are literary engagements with the forced labour regimes of mid-twentieth century Europe, the phenomenon of sex work and prostitution, and the ideologies …
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Trafficking in human beings for forced labour in domestic and international law: a comparative legal study of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom
… as a crime. Special emphasis has been placed on forced labour and the rights of trafficked victims and their protection. The study explores various legislations undertaken at regional, national and international levels and considers rights of trafficked victims under international human rights …
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An Assessment of the Significance of the International Labour Organisation's Convention 182 in South Africa with specific reference to the Instrumental use of Children in the Commission of Offenses as a Worst Form of Child Labour
An analysis of the various forms of child labour since the industrial revolution illustrqtes that the primary focus was on working children and regulating their admission to employment and conditions of work, as demonstrated by the eventual adoption of the International Labour Organisation's …
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Laws without enforcement : the case of unskilled foreign workers in Kuwait
International labour migration has become an issue widely addressed in international relations, due to the many spheres that are related to this area, such as economics, human rights, labour rights as well as sociological issues. In recent years, the Middle East and especially the countries of the …
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Evolutionary Genomics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
… some abducted for slavery by the Europeans, for forced labour in the European colonies established in the American continent. The barbarous nature of the slavery left significant genetic modifications in the ancestry of modern-day descendants of former slaves (African Americans in United States …
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Ukrainian Ostarbeiters in Canada: Individual and Collective Remembering
… 150 thousand Ukrainian Ostarbeiters (civilian labourers who were forcibly recruited to work for the Nazi economy during the war) refused to return from Germany to the Soviet-dominated Ukraine. Together with other Ukrainian Displaced Persons, they composed the third wave of Ukrainian immigration …
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The unique challenges facing the Mozambican immigrants in Mbombela Local Municipality
… legal documentation and formal employment forced labour and violence and are the major challenges facing Mozambican immigrants. Difficulties for immigrants to further studies due to lack of legal documentation is another challenge. The study recommends municipal policies, strategic plans, …
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The Lives and Afterlives of the Mauthausen Subcamp Communities
… Drawing on Ebensee and the Loiblpass, two forced labour outposts of the Mauthausen complex, it presents the first integrated account of the divergent factors that shaped the legacies of these sites and the fates of their subjects. A focus on Ebensee shows how gravely the local bureaucracy, …
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Communal identity and historical claims to land in South Africa : the cases of the Clarkson Moravian Mission and the Tsitsikamma Mfengu
… are colonial land dispossessions, the use of forced indigenous labour, resistance, rebellion and collaboration. The study shows that aspects of "coloured", "native", "tribal", "ancestral", Mfengu, and Moravian, used in contemporary communal identity formations are not fixed givens, but rather …
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The Gulag and Soviet Society in Western Siberia, 1929-1953
… Siberia, 1929-1953” examines the history of forced labour during the Stalin era in Western Siberia, or present-day Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo Provinces. The region was a key site of Stalin-era repression, as it was home to numerous Gulag camps including Siblag, one of the longest lasting …
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"Here in the Queen's Territory, Every Man and Woman are Free": Slavery and the Lives of the Enslaved in Late Nineteenth Century Sierra Leone
… on these subjects accounts of mistreatment and forced labour to argue that slavery in Sierra Leone was significantly more exploitative and violent than we previously understood. I not only identify the principal forms of abuse suffered by enslaved people, but I also uncover the specific work …
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The Labour and Human Rights issues in Sri Lankan global supplier companies of UK multinationals: The influencing factors
This thesis focuses on analysing the labour and human rights (L&HR) issues in Sri Lankan supplier companies of UK multinationals (MNCs) and the influencing factors that shape such issues. It specifically examines the influences of global value chain (GVC) governance structures, institutional forces …
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Hunger and Meaning in the Novels of Cristina García
… will be considered in connection to slavery and forced labour on the sugar plantations in Cuba. It symbolises the amalgamation of all the different cultures that interacted on the island because of the colonisation of the indigenous populations and the slave trade starting from the arrival of …
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Haratin di Mauritania: da status ascritto a rivendicazione identitaria. La schiavitù in prospettiva postcoloniale
… the transformation of slavery into temporary forced labour, freeing slaves ten years later. The expansion in the North of the Senegal River Valley and the need to administrate a vast desert area, populated by few nomadic people, forced France to substantially maintain traditional leaderships …
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Regulating Modern Slavery: Contemporary Developments, Corporate Responsibility and the Role of the State
… with weak governance and a high demand for slave labour, has allowed modern slavery to evolve and thrive underground, where vulnerable individuals are exploited for a multitude of purposes. Due to the complex nature of modern slavery, not only is a comprehensive approach needed to address its …
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The politics behind the establishment of United Nations-mandated fact-finding missions: the case of Myanmar
… Crimes such as arbitrary arrest, torture, or forced labour already featured centrally in the work on Myanmar by human rights organizations in the 1980s, and these and many other apparent human rights violations, to a certain extent, continue to preoccupy the United Nations. Furthermore, not …