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Migrants are often particularly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation because they are outside the legal protection of their home countries. While migration is a positive and rewarding experience for many migrant workers, a significant number face serious violations of their human rights, which can occur at each stage of their journey. This can include ill-treatment by immigration or law enforcement authorities, abusive or exploitative working conditions, an absence of basic workplace rights and protections, limited access to social security, systemic discrimination and wide-spread xenophobia and prejudice.
Migrants in an irregular situation can live and work at the very margins of basic protections and safety. In some cases, especially involving individuals who have been trafficked across borders, the working conditions they experience can amount to forced labour.
There are different categories of migrants:
Monitoring this benchmark gives an indication of migrant workers situation and helps asses the steps to end abuse and exploitation of migrants in this region.
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