Global Media Competition
Winners and finalists of the 2021 Global Media Competition on Labour Migration
Winning entries provide outstanding and balanced reporting on labour migration.
An independent panel of six judges reviewed the entries based on the criteria of creativity, accuracy and balance, protection of migrants and positive portrayal of labour migration.
The competition aims to promote quality reporting on labour migration issues, since balanced and ethical reporting can play an important role in addressing stereotypes and misconceptions, and highlight the positive contribution migrant workers make in their countries of origin and destination.
This year specific coverage of issues related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant workers was encouraged, as well as stories about migrant domestic workers to mark the 10th anniversary of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189).
After a rigorous review process, prizes have been awarded to the following winners in two different categories:
The competition aims to promote quality reporting on labour migration issues, since balanced and ethical reporting can play an important role in addressing stereotypes and misconceptions, and highlight the positive contribution migrant workers make in their countries of origin and destination.
This year specific coverage of issues related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant workers was encouraged, as well as stories about migrant domestic workers to mark the 10th anniversary of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189).
After a rigorous review process, prizes have been awarded to the following winners in two different categories:
Winners
Professional category:
- Petits patrons et jeunes migrants : unis par les liens de l'apprentissage (Small business owners and young migrants: united by the bonds of apprenticeship), by Gurvan Kristanadjaja, published in Libération (1 February 2021).
- Mineros urbanos a cielo abierto, la cara invisible del reciclaje (Urban miners in the open air, the invisible face of recycling), by Judit Alonso Gonzalbez, Javier Sulé and Marta Saiz, published in El País, (1 March 2021).
- Domestic Workers in Gulf Countries Vent Woes on TikTok, by Louise Donovan, published in partnership with The New York Times and The Fuller Project (25 April 2021).
Student category:
- Singapore Rancid US$1 curry: should Singapore swallow cost of migrant workers’ meals?, by Matthew Loh, published in South China Morning Post (15 November 2020).
Finalists
- ‘She just vanished’: Ethiopian domestic workers abused in Lebanon, by Zecharias Zelalem, published in Aljazeera (16 June 2021)
- In Italy, the institutionalised exploitation of migrant care workers has been exacerbated by the pandemic, by Marco Marchese, published in Equal Times (3 September 2021)
- Ocean lockdown: Filipino seafarers face perils, death at sea, by Ana Santos, published in Rappler (23 October 2020)
- Empleadas de hogar, una década perdida para equiparar sus derechos, (Domestic workers, ten years lost seeking labour rights equivalence), by Nuria Cano y María Vicente (EFE), published in El Periódico de España (12 October 2021)
- Many Indian workers died of COVID-19 in the Gulf. Expanding insurance coverage could help their families, by Rejimon Kuttappan, published in The Hindu (9 April 2021)
- Stepping up in a crisis: How migrant workers in Singapore took on leadership roles during COVID-19, by Natasha Ganesan, published in The Straits Times (26 October 2020)
- In California, a women-led coalition is fighting for the passage a new anti-sweatshop law, by Noémie Taylor-Rosner, published in Equal Times (8 September 2021)
- In Guatemala, Chortí women are trying to overcome adversity through enterprise, by Morena Pérez Joachin, published in Equal Times (26 March 2021)