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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"migrant labor"”.
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Migrant labor and farm technical efficiency: Empirical evidence from Lesotho
… inefficiencies for farms with and without migrant workers in Lesotho. It also considers farm size and gender implications for inefficiencies. The stochastic production frontier and logit models are estimated using maximum likelihood procedure.
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Latino Migrant Labor Strife and Solidarity in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 2005-2007
… employer exploitation of predominantly Latino migrant workers, transforming working-class Latino newcomers into the newest class of storm victims in post-Katrina New Orleans. In essence, a "rebuild above all else" recovery scenario took hold between 2005-2007 in which immediate reconstruction …
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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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In the Image of Industry: Indigeneity and Migrant Labor in the Making of Filipino America
This dissertation presents a cultural and labor history of race in 20th century Filipino America through the political-economic conditions that displaced lowlands peasants and indigenous groups from Northern Luzon in the 19th century. It argues that the constellation of contradictory identities …
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Migrant Labor in Dubai Stories of Betrayal, Survival and Struggle for Acceptance on Foreign Land
Over the last couple of years, migrant labor rights in Dubai have been under constant scrutiny. Repeatedly criticized for mistreating its vast unskilled-labor force, Dubai has put into place many recent initiatives to uplift their conditions. This research focuses on what it is like to be a part of …
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Apartheid in Schaarbeek: Belgian Migrant Labor and Human Rights in Europe’s Carbon Transition, 1945-1973
Scholars have regularly used histories of postwar migrant labor in Europe to narrate the fraught relationship between European nation-states and their former colonies, questions of citizenship and belonging, and ideas of multiculturalism and integration. The economic rise of the future European …
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Defining the Boundaries: Family Farmers, Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and the State in the Rural Midwest, 1898--1938
… of class conflicts, the growing use of migrant workers in lieu of traditional farm labor, increasing ethnic diversity and hierarchy, and a burgeoning army of rural reformers and government officials. We find a world that was not being left behind but rather one that was being transformed.
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Bargaining in a Labor Regime: Plantation Life and the Politics of Development in Sri Lanka
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of migrant labor, development, and gender among Malaiyaha ("Hill Country") Tamil tea plantation residents in contemporary Sri Lanka. It draws on one year of field research (2008-2009) conducted during state emergency rule in Sri Lanka amongst Malaiyaha …
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"My People is a People on its Knees": Mexican Labor Migration from the Montana Region and the Formation of a Working Class in New York City
… region was transformed since the 1980s into a migrant labor supplier and how its inhabitants became proletarians, and a major pool of labor supplying the North American transnational migrant labor market.</p> <p>Far from being homogenous, the people of the Montaña region are ethnically and …
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WESTERN MUSIC BY ITS OTHERS: OVERSEAS FILIPINO MUSICIANS AND THE GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRANT CREATIVE LABOR
This thesis provides a labor and cultural geography of creative production at the global periphery. Using qualitative data collected from 2012-2013 in the Philippines, Macao, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia, the research presents the creative sector of live music performance in hotels, theme …
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Distant harvest : the production and price of organic food
… and pesticides. They also take advantage of migrant labor. And after this, customers can expect to pay up to 50% more for an organic diet compared to a conventional one, according to Consumer Reports. If we eventually switch over to a more sustainable way of growing our food, we could, says …
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Portable housing for Mexican migrant workers
A capable migrant labor force is critical in sustaining the United States' agriculture industry. Yet, migrant farm workers are among the most economically disadvantaged people in the United States (NCFH). The housing available to migrant workers in the United States is typically substandard and …
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The platform economy in China: algorithm, labor, and digital capitalism
… social transformations: economic restructuring, migrant labor surplus, favorable policy environments for the digital economy, and technology worship. Through this case, this project aims to theorize the consequences of digital technologies on labor in contemporary China. Using a qualitative …
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Redesigning rural life : relocation and In Situ urbanization in a Shandong village by Saul Kriger Wilson.
… housing more, spend much of the year engaged in migrant labor. Despite apparent local control over the project, villagers did not perceive village elections as a means of resolving their concerns.
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In transit: travel and mobility in Latina art and literature
… mobility through the lens of subjugation and migrant labor, my analysis attends to generational cultural shifts and changing socio-economic conditions. Throughout the study, I focus on the work of Latina artists like Helena Maria Viramontes, Cristina Henríquez, Michele Serros, and Erika Lopez …
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Urbanism of disassembly : strategies for Alang's shipbreaking industry
… obsolete end of life ships are broken, by manual labor, to transform them into a reusable commodity- steel. With an average lifespan of 25 to 30 years, most of these ships, often full of hazardous waste at the end of their working life, end up on the beach of Alang to be dismantled for their …
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Making the Modern Slum: Housing, Mobility, and Poverty in Bombay and its Peripheries
… which to examine the changing relations between migrants and settlers, laborers and capitalists, and society and the state. The changing political economy of Western India resulted in a laboring and urban poor whose housing issues became productive of regional, colonial, and national difference. …
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Redefining the "Ideal Qatari Woman" in the 21st Century: The Role of Qatari Women in Nation Building and Branding
… Qatari rulers’ anxieties surrounding a growing migrant population, the gaze of a Western audience, and regional and domestic pressures, I argue that the Qatari state is constructing and recruiting an educated and socioeconomically privileged class of “ideal Qatari women” to carry out its …
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"We cleared the land with our own hands": space and place in African American community building and freedom struggles in the Missouri Bootheel, 1890-1968"
… agents in this transformation through their labor in the forests and fields, their planning visions, politics and their influence on the built environment through institution, neighborhood and town-building. White supremacy was embedded in the region’s social and economic fabric, but its …