Labor contracts legitimize subcontracting while failing to guarantee migrant safety or legal status

Evidence

In collaboration with the state, multinational corporations and laborsubcontracting agencies control the fate of transnational workers. In large part, such labor is subcontracted and based in wage work. In other words, it is made legitimate through labor contracts in which terms are set for the worker and the employer. The risks in this form of labor are quite high, with the stakes being set at the value of life. Contracted work often fails to provide safety guarantees for transnational migrants and often does not ensure their status as legal migrants. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 26

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Importing outside labor to extraction zones prevents local civic and union organizing — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 193