CLaSP invites you to a seminar titled ‘Fishing Labour Regimes and Migration Infrastructures:  The Case of Recruitment Agencies and Migrant Fishers from the Philippines’ 

Speaker: Phil Kelly (York University, Toronto).

About the event: A job on a distant-water fishing vessel is one of the most difficult, dangerous and dispossessing forms of employment in the global economy. Filipino migrants represent a significant part of the crew complement on such vessels, and their deployment is the outcome of a sophisticated but opaque institutional infrastructure for labour export from the Philippines. This presentation will show how private crewing agencies are central to this infrastructure, not just in supplying migrant labour, but also in the formation of a labour regime that produces a distinctively vulnerable and exploitable workforce. 

About the speaker: Philip Kelly is an economic geographer at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. His research focuses on issues of global development, economic inequality, labour and migration. He has a longstanding commitment to research in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, and has also worked extensively on immigration issues in Canada. He has degrees in Geography from Oxford (BA), McGill University (MA), and the University of British Columbia.