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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Migrant Work"”.
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Latino encounters: Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans in postwar Michigan, 1929-1971
… as they forged national and transnational networks through postwar migration and agricultural labor. I argue that Latina/o/x migrants melded distinct claims to U.S. citizenship through interethnic and international conflicts over access to intermediary power, expressions of popular culture, …
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Essays on Industrial Development
… ICT and industrialization. Enhanced cellular networks, internet access, and strong telephone signals support manufacturing growth, industrial community formation, and a shift toward industrial-sector employment. ICT also improves rural welfare by reducing poverty and reliance on overseas migrant …
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Nature Unsettled: the making of the wilderness imaginary and the Canadian settler state
… decolonial and other-than-human knowledges. This work has primarily focused on the development of landscapes in the Canadian Rocky Mountains as a hinge between Indigenous dispossession and racialized migrant work regimes at the turn of the twentieth century. This is achieved by achieved by an …
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Literacy remains: learning and loss in the brain drain of Filipino migrant labor
… understood as the phenomenon where skilled migrant workers from developing countries use their literacy skills to gain work in developed countries. Through qualitative research with Filipino migrant workers, educators, government employers, and labor recruiters, Literacy Remains argues that …
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This Side Up, Upside Down
… of his older family members, who were all migrant farm workers in California in the mid-twentieth century. Having grown up in Idaho, Theo feels disconnected from his family, and most of all, from his father. The guilt of how he treated his aging father eats away at Theo Cobarde, causing …