By the International Institute of Social Studies – Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Migrant workers in the Dutch agricultural sector experience unfair labour practices, including structurally poor wages and living standards, insecure contracts and hazardous working conditions.
A closer look into the Netherlands agricultural sector by researchers at the International Institute of Social Studies revealed that there are a variety of institutional, structural and associational mechanisms that disempower migrant workers.
After the Covid-19 pandemic placed migrant workers’ precarity in the spotlight, the Dutch government established the Aanjaagteam Bescherming Arbeidsmigranten (Migrant Worker Protection Taskforce) in May 2020. The Taskforce recently released a second set of recommendationsOpens external (in Dutch), further opening up the discussion on how best to address the issue at hand.
The policy brief below contributes to this discussion with a number of recommendations that aim to strengthen the position of migrants in the whole agricultural chain. The brief was presented at a multi-stakeholder event in October 2020 attended, amongst others, by a representative of the Taskforce.
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The policy brief is available in both English and Dutch. Please feel free to download it and share within your networks.
Photographer Joao Jesus.
