Migrant workers all around the world make the products we buy and harvest the food we eat.
These migrants leave home for jobs that can help them achieve a better life, or simply allow them to feed their family. Almost all of our products – clothes, shoes, computers, toys, furniture and food – involve a supply chain that employs migrant workers. Migrants provide the flexible workforce that keeps our just-in-time global economy humming.
Workers will go to great lengths to snag promising jobs, no matter where they are located. Often workers become indebted to middlemen – labor recruiters and moneylenders – whose practices can be exploitative and illegal and it becomes difficult or impossible to come out on top.
