Access to Labor Market Justice for Migrant Workers in Australia

Abstract

Abstract This chapter focuses on access to justice and impediments that migrant workers face in pursuing legal claims and court actions that enforce labor rights. In doing so, the chapter draws on qualitative and quantitative data on migrant workers’ rights in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It refers to the broader justice scholarship from sociolegal intersectional studies on barriers that prevent immigrant workers from enforcing their legal rights. The chapter concludes that, globally, the visa status and visa rules in the labor market can limit the labour rights of migrant workers. It also concludes that considerable attention should be paid not only to the extent of labor rights violations within the workforces of host societies, but also to the agency of migrant workers’ legally enforce their violated rights.