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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Immigrant Workers"”.
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Immigrant workers in the cleaning industry : the Central American experience in Boston
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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Protesting theories about immigrant workers : economic change and Sans-Papiers activism in France
A wave of protests by undocumented immigrants has swept through France over the past three years, and has pushed the issue of immigration and the changing role of migrant workers in the economy to the fore of the political stage. These protests have brought to light how shifts in the French …
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Saints, Sinners, and Socialists on the Southside: Polish Catholic Immigrant Workers, Politics, and Culture in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1890-1930
… possessed a large population of Irish and German immigrants. However, with the decline of the nail industry and the transition to steel manufacturing in the Upper Ohio Valley, by the 1890's, Wheeling attracted many immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. These immigrants took their places at …
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Understanding the experience of immigrant workers: A qualitative examination of the work demands, resources and barriers to achieve optimal wellbeing
… demands, resources, and barriers Latino immigrants experienced performing manual labor. The sample was composed of 24 first-generation Latino immigrants, which participated in 5 different focus groups with 4 to 8 participants each. Using a deductive and inductive approach to code the …
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Immigration, inequality, and the state : three essays on the employment of foreign nationals in the United States
… that annually affect hundreds of thousands of workers. In so doing, I distinguish between competing theoretical accounts of labor market inequality and regulatory failure. In my first essay, I examine new U.S. CIS Freedom of Information Act data on the entire population of approved and denied …
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Narrative Identity Within A Workers' Rights Organization
… by the staff members and worker-members of a workers' rights organization in Northwest Arkansas. I seek to understand how the organization negotiates the broader cultural and institutional narrative identities with the personal narrative identities of the worker-members in a cultural context …
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The impact of cultural and social factors on the success of e-governance systems in Kuwait.
… and less-educated individuals like the immigrant workers. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated use of government platforms like Sahel and Q8 Seha, yet reliance on informal networks and social media persists due to perceived inefficiencies in official websites, alongside concerns over …
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Inequality in the work visa approvals of U.S. immigrants
… visa approval and denial decisions are shaped by immigrants' sending country characteristics. Through this program, government agents mediate a key institutional boundary: access to the U.S. labor market, by conferring or withholding "current" legal standing to potential immigrants. Controlling …
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Money and Migration: Firm Behavior and Labor Immigration Policy
… and increase their demand for labor, including immigrant workers. This, in turn, drives firms to lobby for labor immigration liberalization. Notably, multinational corporations (MNCs) are expected to wield a stronger influence on the policymaking process due to their superior lobbying …
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Utopic Déjà Vu: The Power of the Public Hallucination in the UAE
… brokers in feeding the imagination, chiefly of immigrant-workers who make up 90% of the population. The promise of tax-free living, year-around sunny skies, and a bespoke lifestyle materializes the luxury skyscrapers and spectacular infrastructure projects for which the city is known. From an …
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Back to school : the alternate ground of integration
… District concentrates the large number of recent immigrants who are mostly undereducated or uneducated. In response to this situation, I am proposing the School for Apparel Industry Workers. Modeled based on current education facilities for adult immigrants, it provides learning opportunities to …
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Cleaning cooperatively : an analysis of the success and potential of a cooperative business
… success in improving employment outcomes for immigrant workers. Cooperative business development is often undertaken as a community economic development strategy that seeks to promote better work experiences for those with limited employment options. The argument that ownership and control in …
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Migrant Capitalism: Emigration, Remittances, and Urbanization in Punjab
… instance, it refers to the super-exploitation of immigrant workers, in labor and accumulation regimes where severe wage compression is the only way to protect profitability from market risks and environmental uncertainty. Secondly, migrant capitalism addresses the entrepreneurial strategies of …
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Fanning the Flames of Discontent: The Free Speech Fight of the Kansas City Industrial Workers of the World and the Making of Midwestern Radicalism
… City and was organized and led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The free speech fight serves as a case study in localized Midwestern radicalism, specifically its unique manifestation in Kansas City. While many scholars of labor radicalism have focused on the larger metropolitan areas such …
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‘The Paradise of the Southern Hemisphere’: The Perception of New Zealand and the Maori in Written Accounts of German-speaking Explorers and Travellers 1839-1889
… ethnology, at the same time as a paradise for immigrant workers. The investigation begins with an evaluation of the eighteenth-century account of Georg Forster, who accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the South Pacific. Forster's account is entrenched in the early racial …
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The immigrant experience : networks, skills and the next generation
… several issues in the adaptation process of immigrants and their children in Canada. Chapter 2 investigates why second-generation immigrants are better educated than the remaining population. Using a standard human capital framework where individuals choose how much to invest in both their …
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Essays on Migration, Remittance, and Welfare
… of immigration on the wages of U.S. native workers at the national level. Following a general equilibrium approach and exploiting the variation in labor supply shifts across industry, education, and experience specific skill-groups of workers, I find that immigrant workers are indeed …
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Occupational Skills and Gender Wage Gap
… into the lower tail ("in" occupations) have more immigrant workers, more part-time workers, and less female workers. In addition, the wage gaps between domestic/immigrant, full-time/part-time, and male/female workers are also larger in "in" occupations. The opposite facts hold true in the …
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ON THE EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION ON HOST COUNTRIES
… when asymmetric information about foreing born workers is assumed (chapter 4). So, the rest of the thesis is composed follows: Chapter 2, "The economic impact of migration on host countries: a survey", provides a survey of the literature on the effects of migration on the economic performances …
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Delivering Justice: Food Delivery Cyclists in New York City
… working cyclists are often Latino or Asian male immigrants who are situated within intersectional and interlocking systems of global migration and capital flows, intense time pressures by restaurants and customers, precarious tip-based livelihoods, an e-bike ban and broken windows policing, and …
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