...Annually there are about 1 to 3 million migrants that give up the time with their family to come to the U.S. as migrant farm workers. Considering the great demand of crops, which requires a lot of labor, these migrant workers are throughout the country, especially in rural communities, although they seem to be invisible to most people. Mexico remains to be the primary source of migrant farm workers, while other workers are mostly from countries such as Jamaica, Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Despite of cultural differences, they all come to the U.S. for the same purpose: to be able to provide their family a better life. They came to this country with the faith that there is another way to live their life....
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...marks): |Reading |Point, argument or conclusion made (provide specific page number where possible) | |Shelley, T. (2007): Exploited:|Within Shelley’s (2007) study he discussed government responses and their responsibilities regarding migrant workers. | |Migrant Labour in the New |Evidence of their response can be seen in 2007, when Bulgaria and Romania achieved accession in to the EU. The British | |Global Economy, London: Zed |government were faced with a choice of whether or not to grant them the same rights within the labour markets as other EU | |Books. |nations. At the time there were “implicit characterisations of Bulgarians and Romanians as having criminal tendencies” | | |(Shelley, 2007, pp. 139-140); this resulted in Britain opting to restrict their rights. In Latin America the workers | | |association uncovered another example of similar discrimination, this saw migrant workers being labelled as drug smugglers.| | |Not only have the government in Britain stereotyped migrant workers in the EU but they have also created “a ‘points-based’ | | |system of access to the British labour market for non-EU citizens” (Shelley, 2007, p. 140). It has been argued that this is| | |a method, which aims to simplify entry procedures...
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...you ever wondered how weak and poor people can change their whole life? Migrant worker come here in the United State to get a better life than before in Mexico. Migrant workers work so hard that they got paid unfair wages and lived in poverty. They also get treated really awful. Migrant children that goes to school was very tough for them. They couldn’t speak Spanish when they were in class or they would get hit and it was hard for them to understand English. The life of migrant children is tough and they are experiencing it when they are so little and they are also experiencing a horrible childhood as a kid. People who seem powerless can change their fate. In Viva La Causa, powerless people took a stand to fight for their rights and freedom. Migrant workers went on strike to have a better working conditions, medical care, rest periods and better wages. They sacrificed their homes and their jobs and were not paid because of the strike. They got many people boycott the grapes that the farms produced so the farm owner are not making money and that help change the law. Some may say that they went on strike and lost their car, house, and also they went to jail. However, eventually the grower gave in and they give the worker what they needed....
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...The Truth about Migrant workers Behind the Oklahoma dialect of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ and the telling words contained in article four of ‘The Harvest Gypsies’, it is evident Steinbeck is attesting to the deep struggles and obstacles migrant workers had experienced in the 1930s. John Steinbeck’s main point it seems, is to let the readers know and understand the extent of the migrant worker struggles and how it has taken a toll on simple things such as their dignity, self- confidence and ability to govern themselves. Steinbeck also goes on to give the readers the impression he strongly favors the construction of more Federal Government camps to assist the migrant workers during their current struggles. The struggles of migrant workers as portrayed...
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...Indonesia has a long history of migrant workers to Saudi Arabia. The unfair treatment of the workers always draws global attention on the human rights of the migrant workers. However, the activists NGOs of women migrants need our attention even more than usual. As women do not enjoy equal social (or even in household) position as men in Indonesia (local scale), they are usually been ignored by the government, both Saudi Arabian (national scale) and Indonesian governments (global scale). They are seriously abused and harass in those countries and suffer from great fear of losing their opportunity of going back to their home country as their passports have been collected by the agencies under illegal reasons. It is a shame that there are many NGOs to fight for equal gender treatment but the problem seems too broad and complicated and the leakage is not easy to fix. I argue that activist NGOs in those Southeast Asian countries have work hardly on both politics of scale and social construction of scale in from local to global scales, and they have gained more global attention by decades than before as more people and governments pay more attention on the women migrants now. It is essential to set effective labour laws to protect women (or other migrant workers) from being cheated by the agencies for false income rate and departure date, to avoid more victims to appear and do not know the effective way to contact the NGOs to help. First, I will provide a brief historical background...
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...Immigrants - the new generation of migrant workers 王雪舟 10300680200 【Abstract】 In the context of social development, the new generation of migrant workers show new features including their mindset, career choices, values, and many other great changes have taken place. However, these people are also facing with some new contradictions and problems for they want to fully integrate into the city. Studies on characteristics of China’s new migrant workers, as well as comparisons with the previous generation have great significance in adjusting and improving migrant workers ' policies in China. 【Key Word】 migrant workers; new generation; system; policy I. Brief introduction What is the “new generation of migrant workers”? In 2010, State Council issued the No.1 document “Opinions on balancing urban and rural development to further solidify agriculture with rural economy” and for the first time put forward the term “New generation of migrant workers.”. Yet there is still no clear definition. In my perspective, “New generation of migrant workers” are migrant workers who are born from the 80’s to the 90’s, who are currently at the age between 16 to 26. Some of them leave the countryside to go into cities for working while others grow up in the city with their parents——the old generation of migrant workers, lacking permanent City Hukou. In order to distinguish from the old group ,we call the young group the “New generation of migrant workers”. II. Their Characteristics ...
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...Sources from “UC Davis,” “PBS,” and “Immigration to United States” all talked about major issues and conflicts revolving around migrant farming. The first major issue depicted by all three sources is the lack of jobs. “Immigration to United States” tells readers that migrant workers were “thrown to the curb” after picking seasons were over, “UC Davis” paints the picture that people had to move to get work, even during picking seasons, and “PBS” shows that the workers had to become ‘migrant’ workers in order to sustain themselves. Thus, all three sources show that people didn’t become migrant workers because they wanted to; they did so to sustain themselves and their families. A second issue reflected across all three sources is the poor wages...
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...University of Singapore, Singapore, and M.A. in Sociology from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Professor, Department of Geography, and the Head of Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. She leads the research cluster on Asian Migrations at the Asia Research Institute and is Principal Investigator of the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis (funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK) at the Asia Research Institute. She is a social geographer whose main interest in population-related studies lies in migration, family and gender issues. She has in recent years completed, in collaboration with other colleagues, research projects on modes of childcare in Singapore, migrant women as paid domestic labour in the Southeast Asian context and Singaporean skilled migration to China. Brenda Yeoh has published several books including Gender and Migration (Edward Elgar, 2000 with Katie Willis), Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region (Routledge, 2002, with Peggy Teo and Shirlena Huang), State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2004, with Katie Willis), Migration and Health...
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...and coordinating work tasks among employees. The employment laws for seasonal employees that are from different countries are in the North Carolina General Statues 95-222.229. The migrant Housing Act of NC (S.B. 631; North Carolina General Statutes 95-222:229 were made into law in the U.S. state of North Carolina in 1989. It oversees migrant workers housing through regulations of housing inspections, standards to be met, and recognition of housing that meets all standards and requirements after the pre-occupancy inspection is done by the North Carolina Department of Labor and the local county health department. Its goals are to ensure safe and healthy seasonal housing conditions. Migrant workers can be described as people who come from their home country to the United States legally with limited advantages, to work in a selection of trades such as furniture, agriculture, and construction. In June 2003, I was working at Wal-Mart in Kitty Hawk and every summer, they would hire migrant workers from different countries and provide housing for them. I also had the opportunity to work with them, train them and see their work performance. I had a difficult time trying to understand their language but it really nice working with them. I also notice that there were no taxes taken out their paycheck. The migrant...
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...showing the emergence of a labor model that has shaped the Caribbean for generations. In the beginning of the twentieth century poor eastern Caribbean women followed male migrant workers to various places such as: the Panama Canal, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Curacao, and Aruba in order to provide for their families. Eastern Caribbean women have developed their own family model, which include non-marital relationships and freedom to travel for work. According to eastern Caribbean social norms poor women are expected to have children and support them financially. This results in women leaving their children with extended family and supporting them by working in distant places (99). During the Pre-1960s women migrant workers found employment as seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and maids at labor camps located in the Panama Canal Zone, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic (100). When employment on these islands decreased, women followed the labor migrant pattern again by traveling to Trinidad, Curacao and Aruba to perform domestic work (101). “The female labor migrants experienced a form of freedom and independence that came with consistent predictable wages. These migrant domestics were economic mainstays for their dependents left behind in their sending societies” (101). The quote is showing how migrant women have moved from their economic status in their home town to now being able to support themselves and their families...
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...Objective Introduction: ..................................... Part I Internal and International Migration 1. Linkages between Internal and international Migration 2. Characteristics of Migrants 3. Causes of Migration 4. Phases of migration Part II Temporary and Permanent Migration 1. Distribution of Egyptian migrants according to skill level 2. Distribution of Egyptian migrants according to Destination 3. Economic Effect of Migration 4. Impact of Migration 4.a. on the Labor Supply of Adults Left Behind 4.b. and remittances on household poverty 5. Remittances at micro-level 6. Remittances at macro-level 7. Remittances and Development 8. Volume of Remittances 9. Impact of remittances on poverty alleviation 10. Brain Drain/Gain (causes, effects and solutions) 11. Egyptian Migration To Arab Countries Part III Legal and Illegal Migration 1. Definition 2. Dimensions 3. Causes 4. Dangers 5. Methods 6. Legal and political status 7. Migration Stages 8. The gangs of illegal migration contrive new behaviors….. 9. Egypt youth migration ……….. Ideal cases Objective The whole theme of this paper is to vivid the magnitude of migration, to profile the workers who migrate, to identify the types of migration and to determine the extent to which migration affects the rate of poverty and unemployment in Egypt. Not only that but also exploring the...
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...down the hallways he would see posters that said “Whites only” and he wondered why everyone could be equal. The Chavez’s house was taken away because of them losing the farm and grocery store and his father couldn’t pay the interest on the loan, so Caesar's family packed up their belongings and moved to California to become migrant workers. When he was the 7th grade he quit school and never went back because his father was hurt working and he didn't want mother working in the fields. In 1946 Chavez joined the U.S. Navy for two years he said “That was the...
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...South Africa, being both black and female, suffered a triple oppression. As Africans—which for the most part defines their class position—they had to contend with the restrictive and repressive apartheid legislation, which ensures alien control over all facets of their lives. In addition, as women, they had to contend with the fact that they are regarded as dependants and as inferior to men; as such, they are even further discriminated against within the framework of apartheid.(Mathabane 1982) The rapid deterioration of the economic and social role of women since the establishment of apartheid had increased their workload to inhuman proportions as they try to produce enough from the land to feed their families. With the men off working as migrant labourers, the women face an arduous existence, working at their daily chores in...
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...Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on China’s Migrant Workers: A Survey of 2,700 in 2009 Mark Wang1 Abstract: An Australian geographer examines the effects of the global financial crisis on China’s migrant workers, based on a recent survey of over 2,700 such workers conducted during January–February 2009. The author focuses on the number of migrant workers returning to their home villages for the annual New Year holiday period, the types of workers that were laid off, options available to such workers upon losing employment, and the reasons underlying their subsequent moves. Implications of the findings for labor policy in China are briefly outlined and several directions for future research identified. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: E240, G010, J610, J690. 7 tables, 68 references. Key words: China, global financial crisis, migrant workers, unemployment, globalization, rural development, push factors, manufacturing exports, hukou, migration networks, remittances, Chinese New Year, return migration. INTRODUCTION M igration is closely tied with processes of globalization and the global economy, and China’s rural-to-urban migrant workers have contributed substantially to the country’s economic growth and success. This group of hard-working laborers has made inexpensive “made-in-China” products available in almost every corner of the world. Varying sources estimate that migrant workers2 have contributed 16–24 percent of China’s GDP growth and...
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...analysis of the Migrant Workers Participation Project that is being run by them in U.K now. As a part of EU, U.K allows immigration of workforce from all E.U countries except Romania and Bulgaria. UNISON intends to enroll these immigrants as a part of their organization, so that they are aware of the laws and regulations of the country. The immigrants would come to know through this about their legally allowed working hours, taxes etc., which otherwise they wouldn’t have asked their employees, fearing losing their jobs. They also intend to help migrant workers overcome issues in various different ways, e.g. producing workers’ rights leaflets in 11 different languages. It also intends to enlighten the employers about the issue and help them in communicating to their immigrant worker population. This is being done as the immigrant population has benefited the U.K economy by adding workforce in various fields, which were otherwise being done by the ageing U.K population. This has also benefitted U.K because of the greater work ethic, which the immigrants bring along. 2. Explain the purpose and benefits of PEST analysis. The purpose of the PEST analysis is to analyze the external environment surrounding the migrant workers. It helps them analyze the issues, which they would need to address in order to improve the condition of the immigrant workers in the country. It also gives them a clear agenda that they would need to address in order to help the workers their due benefits...
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