How Jordan’s clothing industry exploits migrant workers: ‘we have nowhere to go with our complaints’

Migrant workers sewing clothes in a factory in Aqaba, south-western Jordan. Katharina Grüneisl (2024), CC BY-NC-ND US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently issued its first-ever “withhold release” orders on garments made in Jordan. These orders, issued on June 23 with immediate effect, bar shipments from two factories run by Jordan-based clothes manufacturer Needle Craft from entering the US market. The case can be traced to the 2023 suicides of two young Bangladeshi women working in…