The formalization of migrant workers promises to reduce unfair treatment and improve social welfare. But does it really? From Thailand’s migration regulations example, formalization has increasing migration costs, particularly through documentation, while creating more challenges than benefits. Documentation does not eliminate precariousness; it creates new forms of it.

Roundtable discussion on​ “Global resource governance and agrarian labour (re)production”​

Labour governance in fisheries through boundary work: ​Moving from modern slavery framing to labour standards