This class investigates the role the state, supply chain actors and activists play in protecting the human and labour rights of commercial fishers. It is widely acknowledged that fishing work results in rights violations and undermines environmental protection. But seafood products account for a significant portion of global trade (USD 156 billion in 2017), and employment (820 million people). These facts pose a significant challenge to design global institutions and laws that effectively prevent the labour exploitation of commercial fishers, who are largely from Southeast Asia and widely reported to work in forced labour situations. This course is divided into three parts: 1) the first part covers the full range of issues that confront policy-makers tasked with designing effective institutions and laws; 2) the second part focusses on two human rights abuses that are commonplace in the fisheries; and 3) the third part applies acquired knowledge to the European and Southeast Asian contexts to identify specific policies to more effectively regulate and reduce labour exploitation in commercial fishing globally.
Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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weekly | Do | 16:00-18:00 | ONLINE | 11.10.2021-04.02.2022
not on: 1/6/22 |
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30-M-Soz-M8a Soziologie der globalen Welt a | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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30-M-Soz-M8b Soziologie der globalen Welt b | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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30-M-Soz-M8c Soziologie der globalen Welt c | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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The binding module descriptions contain further information, including specifications on the "types of assignments" students need to complete. In cases where a module description mentions more than one kind of assignment, the respective member of the teaching staff will decide which task(s) they assign the students.
Introduction to exploitation in the global fisheries
Social consequences and seafood
Public regulation
Global supply chains and seafood
Migrant status or employment
Artisanal and large-scale fishing practice
Human rights and sustainability
Forced labour
Human trafficking
Application 1: Fishers in Southeast Asian fisheries
Application 2: Southeast Asian fishers in European fisheries
Social justice in the global fisheries
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