Migrant worker

Migrant farm worker, New York

The term migrant worker has different official meanings and connotations in different parts of the world; the United Nations' definition is very broad, essentially including anyone working outside of their home country. In some countries, notably the U. S. , the term has a specific connotation that the work will be low paid. The term can also be used to describe someone who migrates within a country, possibly their own, in order to pursue work such as seasonal work.

1 United Nations' definition
2 National perspectives
3 See also
4 References

United Nations' definition

The "United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families"^[1] defines migrant worker as follows:

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The term "migrant worker" refers to a person who is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national. The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security

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This Convention has been ratified by Mexico, Brazil and the Philippines (amongst many other nations that supply foreign labour) but it has not been ratified by the United States, Germany and Japan (amongst other nations that depend on cheap foreign labour). The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. For an up to date listing of ratifications and signatories visit this special page on the website of December 18, the International Advocacy and Resource Centre on the Human Rights of Migrant Workers.

National perspectives

Asia

China

It is also used currently for workers from China's impoverished west who go to work in the more prosperous east. People like Wang Binyu, whose case became newsworthy in 2005. Wang Binyu ( April 30, 1977 &ndash October 19, 2005) was a Chinese migrant labourer executed for Murder According to State statistics, the current number of migrant workers in China is estimated at 150 million, that is to say nearly 11. 5% of the population. China’s urban migrants sent home the equivalent of almost 300 billion US$ in 2005.

Europe

The recent expansions of the European Union have provided opportunities for many people to be able to migrate to other EU countries for work. Enlargement of the European Union is the process of expanding the European Union (EU through the accession of new member states. For both the 2004 and 2007 enlargements existing states were given the rights to impose various transitional arrangements to limit access to their labour markets.

North America

Canada

In Canada companies are beginning to recruit temporary foreign workers under Services Canada's recent expansion of an immigration program for migrant workers.

United States

Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma. May 1937

Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma. Sweetwater is a small community in the state of Oklahoma, that stradles the county line of Beckham County and Roger Mills County, with portions of the May 1937

The term foreign worker is generally used in the United States to refer to people fitting the international (UN) definition of migrant worker. expatriate foreign worker is a person who works in a country other than the one of which he or she is a Citizen. The term migrant worker, in the U. S. , refers to someone who regularly works away from home, if they have a home at all. A home is a place of Residence or Refuge. It is usually a place where an individual or a family can rest in and be able to store Personal property. ^[2]

In the United States, this term is commonly used to describe low-wage workers performing manual labor in the agriculture field; these are often immigrants who are not working on valid work visas. Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and fungi and the raising of domesticated Animals The study of agriculture Immigration refers to the movement of people among countries While the movement of people has existed throughout human history at various levels modern immigration implies long-term The United States has enacted the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Actto remove the restraints on commerce caused by activities detrimental to migrant and seasonal agricultural workers; to require farm labor contractors to register; and to assure necessary protections for migrant and seasonal agricultural workers, agricultural associations, and agricultural employers. Most migrant workers in America are people from Mexico and Central America.

The term migrant worker sometimes may be used to describe any worker who moves from one seasonal job to another. ^[2] This use is generally confined to lower-wage fields, perhaps because the term has been indelibly linked with low-wage farmworkers and illegal immigrants. A farmworker is a person hired to work in the agricultural industry ^[2] Examples of professions which could be called migrant workers, some of them quite lucrative, include: Electricians in the construction industry; other construction workers who travel from one construction job to another, often in different cities; wildland firefighters in the western United States; temporary/roving consulting work; and possibly even interstate truck drivers. An electrician is a Tradesman specializing in electrical wiring of buildings and related equipment Construction workers are employed in the Construction industry and work predominately on Construction sites and are typically engaged in aspects of the industry A wildfire, also known as a wildland fire, forest fire, brush fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, Peat fire, A truck driver (Commonly called a trucker, driver or Teamster in the United States and Canada, a truckie or

In America's history, starting at the end of the Civil War, hobos were the migrant workers who performed much of this agricultural work, using freight railroads as their means of transportation to new jobs. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Hobo is a term that refers to a Subculture of wandering Homeless people particularly those who make a habit of hopping freight trains. During the Great Depression, Okies who fled the dust bowl were a significant source of temporary farm labor. Okie is a term dating from as early as 1907 denoting a resident or native of Oklahoma. The Dust Bowl, or the dirty thirties, was a period of severe Dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and

References

^ United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. Retrieved on 2006-11-30. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1700 - Battle of Narva — A Swedish army of 8500 men under Charles XII defeats
^ ^a ^b ^c Newport City Refugees and Asylum Seekers

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an agricultural labourer who travels from place to place harvesting seasonal crops

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