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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Foreign workers"”.
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Associative activism : organizing support for foreign workers in contemporary Japan
Japan is a country known for its suspicion of foreigners, but Japanese citizens have established non-government organizations to support illegal foreign migrants. The problems and conditions of illegal foreign workers are rooted in Japanese government policies. The 1990 Immigration Control Law …
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Laws without enforcement : the case of unskilled foreign workers in Kuwait
… As a newly oil-rich nation, Kuwait relied on foreign workers to fill the gaps in the labour market that existed due to a shortage of skills among the local population. Modern infrastructures, large-scale projects and basic services such as health care and education all needed human resources …
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Inequality of opportunity: the plight of foreign workers in South Africa
… out clandestinely. Evidence indicates that foreigners working without formal authorisation, i.e. 'irregular migrant workers', are in a particularly vulnerable position primarily because of their irregular immigration status. They are more likely to be subjected to exploitative and unsafe …
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Segregation, Mobility and Residential Location of Foreign Workers in Duesseldorf, West Germany
… complex interrelationships between German and foreign mobility processes in constrained urban housing markets, and the resulting residential distributions of Germans and foreigners in the city. Ethnic differences in locational preferences, discrimination, information biases, and economic power …
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Lives on Hold: An Exploratory Analysis of the Effects of Temporariness on the Health and Well-Being of Temporary Foreign Workers in Saskatchewan.
… Canada has relied on millions of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to alleviate labour shortages and to boost the Canadian economy. Past research regarding TFWs highlights the negative impacts of precarious legal status on their health and well-being. Nevertheless, limited attention has been …
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Young Saudis' Attitudes toward Saudi Pidgin Arabic
… pidgin language. Though SPA is widely used among foreign workers and between employers and their foreign workers, little is known about the specific attitudes of the young Saudi generation toward this stigmatized contact language (Bakir, 2010), as compared to their native Najdi Saudi Arabic (NSA) …
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Global, mobile and professional: a case study of individuals who have participated in intra-company transfers
Organizations operate globally. Workers are transferred between local and international offices as they are selected for international assignments. Regulatory frameworks, designed to control the inflow of foreign workers, exist in most countries. Rules and regulations exist regarding the presence …
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The use of public space by foreign female domestic workers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
… influx of young, single and lower income female workers from developing nations such as the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia and others into Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to serve as domestic workers. Because most female domestic foreign workers reside in the employers' homes, they seek a …
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INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN MODERN SINGAPORE
This is a study of ideology applied to a study of workers in Singapore. The thesis covers three main areas: the first examines the historical and institutional conditions of labour subordination. The second investigates the everyday experiences of workers; with a case study of workers in a …
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The Influence of National Culture on Knowledge Transfer within the Middle East Management Training Sector
… to natural resources but remains reliant on foreign workers to impart the knowledge required to generate endogenous talent. Despite efforts by the United Arab Emirate (UAE) government to absorb this knowledge and develop Emirate talent, the reliance on foreign workers is as prevalent today as …
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Cross-Cultural issues at Icelandic workplaces
… of multiculturalism at workplaces in Iceland. 46 foreign workers and 36 Icelandic workers at various organizations answered the online questionnaire. The result shows that about half of workplaces of participants noticed increase in number of foreign employees, and most of them have experienced …
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Immigration Discourses in the U.S. and in Japan
… everyday discourses regarding immigration/foreign workers in the U.S. and in Japan. To establish a link between the discourses at these two levels, I employed a combination of critical and interpretive theoretical perspectives, and analyzed how racial ideologies were reproduced and/or …
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Building the border: The treatment of immigrants in France, 1884-1914
… 1884 and 1914, several hundred thousand male foreigners, chiefly Italian, entered unskilled occupations in France's ""dual labor market."" In French Lorraine, Italians formed an industrial labor underclass in mining and construction. This work analyzes the French response to this proletarian …
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Managerial Attitudes, Ethics and Foreign Labour
The phenomenal increase of foreign labour employment (FLE) in the last three decades has brought about numerous socio-economic problems for receiving, sending and hosting nations of foreign workers. As a consequence, these have triggered many clamours for justice and equity for foreign workers from …
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Dvakrát nevstoupíš do stejné řeky? Rakousko a jeho "gastarbeiteři" v letech 1961-1974 a 2002-2011
… principle. The programme aimed to ensure foreign workers' role as a flexible labour force for times of economic boom while securing their return back to their homelands in times of economic downturn. After the programme was abruptly ended in 1974, a majority of "guest workers" instead of …
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Policy legacies and the politics of labour immigration selection and control: the processes and dynamics shaping national-level policy decisions during the recent wave of international migration
… entry controls for select categories of foreign workers across the developed world. The scale of labour immigration, and the categories of foreign workers granted entry, varied considerably across states. To some extent, these developments transcended the traditional classifications of …
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Employability of local trained skill labour in construction industry
… of local skilled labour. In addition, the local workers have been reported to unable to fulfil the demand of construction market and this have caused the contractor to import foreign workers to meet the needs and requirement of labour market in construction sector. The objectives of this study …
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Continuity and change among the 'Utaiba tribe in the Al-Duwadmi province of Saudi Arabia: a socio-anthropological study
… available to them. Increased reliance on hired foreign workers brings new cultural influences.Despite changes in fashions and customs related to marriage and new forms of leisure, especially for the young, family solidarity and influence are essentially unchanged. Marriages are still mainly …
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