Abstract
Abstract The introduction identifies the need for a comparative study of violations against migrants’ workplace rights and provides an overview of the empirical, theoretical, and practical contributions of the book. It also sets out the quantitative basis for a comprehensive, comparative analysis of migrant worker rights. The mixed methodology is outlined. This combines a quantitative analysis of the Migrant Worker Rights Database’s 907 court and tribunal cases with detailed immigration stories of seven key court cases and interviews with associated legal representatives from both sides. It identifies possible explanations and characteristics of migrant worker violations. This introduction also discusses some of the impediments to accessing the legal system that migrants might face, including language barriers, legal rules, funding availability, and fear of deportation. These factors are important insofar as they might affect whether migrants bring cases at all. They therefore operate as “gateway” factors to inclusion in the book’s database.
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