AW: [Stop-traffic] Visa Portability and Trafficking

[Petra Follmar]

Dear Mie Lewis
the problem of non-portability does exist in Germany as well. It is
dealt with profoundly in my former colleague's doctoral thesis (Ulrike
Mentz: Frauenhandel als migrationsrechtliches Problem, Frkft/Main 2001)
- unfortunately, this is only published in German, so I don't know if it
is of any use for you. Even tenser is the situation of domestic workers
employed by foreign diplomats; the German NGO Ban Ying, Berlin
(info at ban-ying.de) has worked on that. Maybe you could also contact the
German umbrella organisation KOK (www.kok-potsdam.de) to see whether
they have any English papers about non-portability and trafficking in
Germany. An overview on the conditions of work visa in several European
countries is also provided under www.femmigration.net.

Best regards,
Petra Follmar
German Institute in Human Rights 

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Gesendet: Freitag, 4. Juni 2004 19:45
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Betreff: [Stop-traffic] Visa Portability and Trafficking

Hi everyone,

Can anyone recommend reports, articles, etc. that look
at the link between visa portability and trafficking? 

By "portability" I mean the extent to which temporary
employment visas tie the worker to his/her employer. 
In the U.S., the non-portability of certain visas
contributes substantially to worker exploitation and
slavery, because workers and employers know that if a
worker quits for any reason, including abuse, that
worker falls out of legal status.

I'm told that this is also a major problem in other
countries.  Are there papers out there that describe
the work visa regimes in one or more other countries?

Thanks very much!

Mie Lewis
New Voices Fellow / Attorney at Law
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
1188 Franklin Street, Suite 202
San Francisco, CA  94109
Ph:  415.567.6255 x30
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