Reports by Other Organizations

Reports by organizations

A Pandemic Reset for Migrant Workers

A State of Fear

Beneath the Pines: Stories of Migrant Tree Planters

Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States

Culture Shock: The Exploitation of J-1 Cultural Exchange Workers

Domestic Workers’ Rights in the United States: Report for U.N Human Rights Committee Alliance to End Slavery & Trafficking: Strengthen Regulation of Foreign Labor Recruiters

Gaming the System: Guest Worker Visa Programs and Professional and Technical Workers in the U. S,

Help Wanted: Hiring, Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery in the Global Economy

Hidden in the Home: Abuse of Domestic Workers with Special Visasa in the United States

Home is Where the Work Is: Inside New York’s Domestic Work Industry

Importing Educators: Causes and Consequences of International Teacher Recruitment

Jornaleros Mexicano en EU con Visa: Lost Modernos Olivados (Spanish only)

Human Rights Delegation Report: Hershey  J-1 Visas

Injustice On Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry

EPI Briefing Paper: J visas receive minimal oversight despite significant implications for the U.S. labor market

Leveling the Playing Field: Reforming the H-2B Program to Protect Guestworkers and U.S. Workers

Litany of Abuses: More Protections Needed in the H-2A Program

Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice at Home: Indonesia

Monitoring International Labor Recruitment: A Cross-Visa Exploration of Regulatory Challenges

New Immigrants In An Old Industry: Mexican H-2B Workers in the Mid-Atlantic Blue Crab Processing Industry

No Way To Treat A Guest: Why the H-2A Agricultural Visa Program Fails U.S. and Foreign Workers

Overworked and Underpaid- H-2A Herders in Colorado

Picked Apart: The Hidden Struggles of Migrant Worker Women in the Maryland Crab Industry

Recruitment Revealed: Fundamental Flaws in the H-2 Temporary Worker Program and Recommendations for Change

Trafficking and Exploitation of Migrant Domestic Workers by Diplomats and Staff of International Organizations in the United States

U.S.-Based International Nurse Recruitment: Structure and Practices of a Burgeoning Industry

Unfair Advantage: Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards

Unethical International Nurse-Staffing Agencies–The Need for Legislative Action

Visas, Inc. :  Corporate Control and Policy Incoherence in the U.S. Temporary Foreign Labor System

Weeding Out Abuses: Recommendations for a Law-abiding Farm Labor System

Government Reports

Congressional Research Service: Immigration for Intracompany Transfers (L-Visas)

GAO Report on H-2B Visa Program: Closed and Criminal Cases Illustrate Instances of H-2B Workers Being Targets of Fraud and Abuse

GAO: H-2A Agricultural Guestworker Program Changes Could Improve Services to Employers and Better Protect Workers

GAO: Inappropriate Uses of Educational and Cultural Exchange Visas

GAO: State Department: Stronger Action Needed to Improve Oversight and Assess Risks of the Summer Work Travel and Trainee Categories of the Exchange Visitor Program

Trafficking and Exploitation of Migrant Domestic Workers by Diplomats and Staff of International Organizations in the United States

Fact Sheets

Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking: Proposal for Greater Oversight of Foreign Labor Recruiters to Better Prevent Human Trafficking in California

Alliance to End Slavery & Trafficking: Strengthen Regulation of Foreign Labor Recruiters