The recruitment and deployment of migrant fishers in distant waters (DW) fisheries has emerged as a significant site for the production of unfree labor relations. We trace the recruitment and deployment geographies of migrant fishers from the Philippines to the vessel, conceptualizing the time-spaces of the journey as a significant site for producing unfree labor. We argue that labor brokerage not only establishes the conditions of the labor contract and financialization of migration in the migrants’ home country but is also an ongoing process that intensifies unfreedom through the journey to deployment across multiple sites and temporalities. We conceptualize this movement into exploitative laboring situations as “funnels of unfreedom.” The production of unfreedom through the geographies of recruitment, harboring, and transportation to the destination is one strategy by which DW fleets can reduce costs. The relevance of this discussion extends to other sectors where complex labor brokerage geographies constrain migrant worker choices and fortify unfreedom in labor relations.

在远洋 (DW) 渔业中招募和部署移徙渔民已成为产生不自由劳动关系的重要场所。我们追溯了从菲律宾到船只的移徙渔民的招募和部署地理，将旅程的时空概念化为生产非自由劳动力的重要场所。我们认为，劳务经纪不仅在移民的祖国建立了劳动合同和移民金融化的条件，而且还是一个持续的过程，通过跨多个地点和时间的部署旅程加剧了不自由。我们将这种运动概念化为剥削劳动的情况，称为“不自由的漏斗”。通过招募、窝藏、运输到目的地是 DW 车队可以降低成本的一种策略。本次讨论的相关性延伸到其他部门，在这些部门，复杂的劳务经纪地域限制了农民工的选择并加剧了劳资关系中的不自由。