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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"migrant worker"”.
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Social protection for the migrant worker in South Africa
… the social protection, if any, afforded to migrant workers in South Africa. To accomplish this purpose, the ambit of the concept of ‘social protection’ is investigated and the legal status and different categories of migrant workers are probed. The strands of social protection identified and …
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Neither here nor there: choice and constraint in migrant worker acculturation.
… a certain freedom of movement and choice for CEE migrants that are denied to their non-CEE counterparts and predecessors. This phenomenon has led to unpredictable changes in UK migration patterns (Sumption and Somerville 2010) and has changed the current state of many British workplaces which have …
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Tangible mobile app store design for China's new generation migrant worker
… Mobile phone uses play a very important role in migrant responses to alienation and discrimination. There are 150 million to 200 million migrant workers in China, 60% of them are the second-generation migrant workers. They support the nation’s manufacturing and industry. The majority of these …
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The Agricultural Household in Bangladesh: A Disaggregated Empirical Analysis With Particular Emphasis on the Demand for Food Calories
… Using Todaro's model of expected wages for a migrant worker, we calculate the net benefit derived from rural-urban migration. Under realistic assumptions, we show that the benefit derived from immigration to cities outweighs the cost of emigration on rural economies. Therefore, from …
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The “Man Walks Outside Time Now”: Verbal Representations of Photographic Images in the Poems of Larry Levis
… the Gypsies,” “Sensationalism,” and “Photograph: Migrant Worker, Parlier, California, 1967.”
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In the Image of Industry: Indigeneity and Migrant Labor in the Making of Filipino America
… indigenous “savage” and the industrious migrant worker—across the early 20th century Pacific emerge out of archival productions that decontextualized political economic upheavals, as the island of Luzon became repurposed into a commodity producing colony. Industrial empires, nationalist …
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Transnational Labour Migration: Experiences of Mid-to-Highly Skilled African Migrant Workers in Doha, Qatar
… such as nationality, gender and class to shape migrant worker experiences. The study also considered those who migrated to Qatar as organization-sponsored workers and those on so-called free visas. Based on data gathered from 12 Skype and WhatsApp interviews, findings revealed how the …
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Diasporic tactics
… an analogy between the artist and the itinerant migrant worker. This thesis is an elaboration on certain viewpoints, encounters, and case studies that have lead me to do my actual [art] work. In it I attempt to describe the intricate human processes involved with immigration, adaptation, and …
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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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Gender Role Reversal: Civilian Husbands of United States Military Servicewomen Defining Masculinity as Tied-Migrant Workers
… of servicewomen in their positions as tied-migrant workers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 civilian husbands who experienced at least one geographic relocation due to their wife's military service. Descriptive phenomenological analysis was used to discover the essence of …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… million children who are separated from their migrant worker parents and are receiving education in their respective hometowns which accounts for more than one-fifth of the Chinese children population today. Hence, there is significant amount of literature on this. However, in the process of …
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Harvest Histories: A Social History of Mexican Farm Labour in Canada since 1974
… about an increased presence of non-citizen guest workers in agriculture in Canada have only more recently begun to enter the public arena, this dissertation probes how migrant agricultural workers have occupied a longer and more complex place in Canadian history than most Canadians may …
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Micro-Institution : design and craft in education for socio-economic change for urban China migrant workers' children
The socioeconomic condition of the urban migrant worker remains one of the most substantial manifestations of inequality in China. The ever-growing wealth and human rights disparity between urban citizens and rural farmers has multigenerational implications: endangering the migrant workers and …
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CONTAINER CIRCUIT HOUSING FOR MIGRANT WORKERS
… was set up to address the issue of transient worker housing that are done on site. Job site housing has an advantage over dormitories where the project site is far from the dormitories, inaccessible, or has different working hours over the entire job. Also for onsite housing, when the project …
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Assaulting childhood : an ethnographic study of children resident in a Western Cape migrant hostel complex
… the ages of 10 and 15 years who reside in migrant worker hostels in the Hottentots-Holland region of the Western Cape. It focuses on three particular aspects of the children's lives: their domestic circumstances and relationships prior to their residence in the hostels; their experiences of …
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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.
… 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 given to …
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Fenomena perceraian di kalangan Tenaga Kerja Wanita (TKW) Hongkong dan Taiwan: Studi di Desa Kedungsalam Kecamatan Donomulyo Kabupaten Malang
… labor in the country, especially for female workers has encouraged women to seek and exploit opportunities abroad. The women who take advantage of employment opportunities in abroad is called the Labor Women (TKW). every migrant worker has reason or motivating factor behind their decision to …
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The rural video influencers in China: on the new edge of urbanization
… rural areas, spent a period of their lives as migrant workers, and finally became video influencers performing some kind of rural lifestyle.
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The acculturation of Barbadian agriculture workers in Canada
… of the squalid conditions in which Barbadian migrants worked. As he formed his opinion of Canada's rural slums or field ghettos he increasingly became concerned with what these rural slums meant to the migrants.This interest lead to a focus on acculturation processes and a very careful study …
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LA CONDIZIONE DI PRECARIETÀ DEL MIGRANTE: UNA PROSPETTIVA GIUSLAVORISTICA
… labor relationship and the status of the non-Eu worker. The second chapter focuses on economic migration and the cumbersome legislation that regulates it, introducing a series of entry and stay requirements that have no other effect than to incentivize migrants to use irregular channels to enter …
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