Thai Migrant Workers in Agriculture Farms in New Zealand: A Short Case Study

Sakolnakorn, Thongphon Promsaka Na; Naipinit, Aree; Tepsing, Punya; Kroeksakul, Patarapong

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“…Research has found migrant workers experience exploitation and exploitative labour conditions in certain industry sectors in New Zealand. These are agriculture (Caritas, 2016;Stringer, 2016;Promsaka Na Sakolnakorn et al, 2013;Tipples et al, 2012), horticulture and viticulture (Caritas, 2016;Stringer, 2016;Prochazkova, 2013;Anderson et al, 2012;Anderson and Naidu, 2010;Beer and Lewis, 2006), fisheries (Macfarlane, 2017;Stringer, 2016;Stringer et al, 2016;Simmons and Stringer, 2014), construction (Stringer, 2016;Searle, McLeod and Ellen-Eliza, 2015), hospitality (Caritas, 2016;Stringer, 2016;Searle, McLeod and Stichbury, 2015), and health care services (Lovelock and Martin, 2016;Peligman-Toclo, 2011;Walker, 2008;Manchester, 2005;O'Connor, 2005). This small body of research about migrant exploitation in certain New Zealand industry sectors consistently showed the same types of exploitation or poor labour conditions were occurring across sectors.…”

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Narratives of human trafficking: Defining policy, practice and positioning in a contested field

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This research uses narrative criminology to investigate the way the problem of human trafficking is narrated in New Zealand and international settings. It draws on accounts from professionals who are responsible for defining and responding to human trafficking, and reports, policy, and other guiding documents. The main issue driving this research is the contested nature of human trafficking. Human trafficking is a crime type that has been highly politicised resulting in shifts and changes to the way the problem of trafficking has been approached over the past 20 years, with differing trends coming to the fore and dominating trafficking practices at different times. The internationally dominant approaches which emphasise prostitution, harsh criminal responses, and border security have come under criticism for having harmful impacts for migrant workers. This research aims to understand how human trafficking is defined, what discourses are drawn on, and how international narratives may be influencing local responses with the overall aim of identifying new and less problematic ways of conceptualising human trafficking and responding to migrant exploitation. This thesis finds that different ways of narrating human trafficking are constitutive of different trafficking realities. Narratives determine the shape the problem takes, who is involved, what the causes and solutions are, who responds, and who are classed as victims and perpetrators. This research concludes that as narratives structure reality and action, in order to change how we deal with certain problems, the way the problem is narrated must also change. The findings of this thesis reflect current challenges in the wider international anti-trafficking field of how to avoid positioning western states and systems as outside of the problem of trafficking, issues with broadening definitions of victimhood, and questions of the role of international versus local bodies in defining problems involving migration and crime. As well as reflecting these current challenges, the findings from this research provide insights for moving forwards by proposing an alternative narrative. This counter narrative is created through drawing together components of narratives identified in this research. It avoids the issues of western exceptionalism, narrow forms of victimhood, and a focus on sex trafficking, and provides a different method for conceptualising migration, exploitation, and harm.

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Section: Exploitation In New Zealandmentioning

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Narratives of human trafficking: Defining policy, practice and positioning in a contested field

Cornforth-Camden¹

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Thai Migrant Workers in Agriculture Farms in New Zealand: A Short Case Study

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Narratives of human trafficking: Defining policy, practice and positioning in a contested field

Narratives of human trafficking: Defining policy, practice and positioning in a contested field

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