Trapped: the exploitation of migrant workers in Malaysia

Amnesty International, 2010, 90 Seiten

Drawn by promises of jobs in Malaysia, thousands of men and women from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal and elswhere in the region pay substantial sums to recruitment agents. Once they arrive, they often find that much of what their agents told them about their new jobs is untrue— the pay, type of work, even the existence of those jobs or their legal status in the country.