A ‘north star’ in governing global labour migration? The ILO and the Fair Recruitment Initiative

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-04-21 DOI:10.1177/14680181221084792
Katharine Jones
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In 2014, the International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI) with the aim of tackling labour exploitation widely associated with the recruitment of low-wage migrant workers. To date, scholars have largely neglected the ILO’s role in developing ‘fair recruitment’ as a mechanism of global social policy. In response, this article analyses the ILO’s harnessing of fair recruitment to the global governance of migration. Through engaging in significant knowledge production, the ILO has promoted ‘fair recruitment’ as a new norm, generating consensus, despite its absence from international legal standards. In utilising multiple and varied tools, the article argues that the FRI is an example of the ‘coordinated governance’ which the ILO has had to pragmatically resort to in externally and internally challenging environments, and regardless of whether states have ratified its main convention on recruitment, C181. However, as of 2022, the concept of fair recruitment remains a muted challenge to the hegemonic precarity and inequalities associated with international labour migration in the 21st century.
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治理全球劳动力迁移的“北极星”?劳工组织和公平招聘倡议
2014年,国际劳工组织(ILO)发起了公平招聘倡议(FRI),旨在解决与招聘低工资移民工人广泛相关的劳动剥削问题。迄今为止,学者们在很大程度上忽视了国际劳工组织在发展“公平招聘”作为全球社会政策机制方面的作用。作为回应,本文分析了国际劳工组织利用公平招聘对全球移民治理的影响。通过参与重要的知识生产,国际劳工组织促进了“公平招聘”作为一种新规范,产生了共识,尽管它缺乏国际法律标准。文章认为,在利用多种多样的工具方面,FRI是国际劳工组织在外部和内部充满挑战的环境中不得不务实地诉诸的“协调治理”的一个例子,无论各国是否批准了其关于招聘的主要公约C181。然而,截至2022年,公平招聘的概念仍然是对21世纪与国际劳动力迁移相关的霸权不稳定和不平等的温和挑战。
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Global Social Policy
Global Social Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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期刊介绍: Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.
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