For migrant workers who went home — well, Chengdu has 5 million migrant workers.
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"There is a belief that migrant workers are taking away our social, economic and political resources," said Glorene Das, head of the Malaysian migrant workers rights group Tenaganita.
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Before Thailand's military government enacted a tough law on migrant workers last June, the country had as many as three million unregistered migrant workers, many from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.
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Similarly, farm wages rose in states where there had been lots of migrant workers, states where there had been few migrant workers and states where there had been almost none (see chart).
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"It's a very rare victory for labor rights and migrant workers in Thailand, and it will help bolster the rights of migrant workers in the country," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Since Malaysia's new government came to power in May, ousting a corruption-mired coalition, officials have vowed to improve conditions for migrant workers, with about two million registered migrant workers in the country.
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Migrant workers receive too little protection against coercion and abuse.
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Women and children are particularly vulnerable, as are migrant workers.
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FOR MIGRANT workers, sending money home is an expensive chore.
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Qatar is home to up to 217,22011 Egyptian migrant workers.
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They also share items with migrant workers at weekly giveaways.
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Migrant workers elsewhere in Qatar have reported similar problems previously.
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What are some of the biggest misconceptions about migrant workers?
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Migrant workers head back to their homes in Patna, India.
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Migrant workers take shelter inside DAV School in Patna, India.
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By 2002, there were 226,000 migrant workers living in Israel.
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In China, most grave robbers are migrant workers and farmers.
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Among migrant workers in Dubai, tales of mistreatment are legion.
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What would a world without female migrant workers look like?
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Migrant workers, says Professor de Leo, have brought "a massive improvement".
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African-Americans, migrant workers, and women from the labor protections and
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"Migrant workers return home with dreams that are broken," he said.
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The tasks the migrant workers perform are incredibly dangerous as well.
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We discussed the benefits that migrant workers have in both countries.
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BEIJING — Migrant workers are the unsung heroes of China's economic miracle.
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Or does Linda resemble migrant workers from Mexico or the Philippines?
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Migrant workers used to be able to afford apples, he said.
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"The pressure on migrant workers was always great," Mr. Yang said.
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The registered urban jobless rate excludes China's 280 million migrant workers.
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Migrant workers frequently fall prey to shady recruiters proffering exaggerated wages.
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The UAE has an equally harsh way of treating migrant workers.
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Migrant workers, mainly from South-East Asia, are becoming a new underclass.
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Some migrant workers may need a stint behind bars to see it.
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In 2013 migrant workers made up nearly half of Gurao's 161,000 people.
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Migrant workers should not need their employers' permission to leave the country.
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It will also appeal to visitors and migrant workers in malarial regions.
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Migrant workers' use of the former bomb shelters remains a delicate topic.
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But it is not seriously considering broader integration for foreign migrant workers.
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A drive to unionize more migrant workers would help develop collectivist sympathies.
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Many of the migrant workers return to their homes during that time.
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A government official said Qatar was seeking to improve conditions for migrant workers.
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From migrant workers to big wheels in agribusiness, the season covers them all.
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Other victims included migrant workers, teachers, students and elderly people, the report said.
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Their market includes the masses of migrant workers in need of remittance services.
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America's immigration agency arrested 680 illegal migrant workers at seven factories in Mississippi.
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Two Myanmar migrant workers were found guilty in 2015 of killing the pair.
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For one thing, millions of migrant workers from Central Asia work in Russia.
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Migrant workers in the Gulf cannot easily become citizens or put down roots.
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Migrant workers outnumber the local workforce in Qatar by nearly 20 to one.
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Migrant workers transform themselves from factory workers into cooks as the economy changes.
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Temporary migrant workers, they argue, are devices used by employers to undercut wages.
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Domestic migrant workers in the Middle East continue to face confinement and abuse.
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Millions of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia come from many of those countries.
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Millions of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia come from many of those countries.
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Migrant workers head back to their homes from New Delhi on March 29.
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Migrant workers make up about half of the Senegalese Sugar Company's 220,2200 workers.
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China's 290 million migrant workers are among those most exposed to a slump.
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In among the foreign migrant workers is the American-born Connor (Coy Henson).
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"Migrant workers are out of sight, out of mind in society," Sobel says.
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We aren't beggars, or migrant workers, or some borderland wedged between orcs and elves.
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The passengers on board the bus were migrant workers from Uzbekistan, the agencies reported.
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As conflict has disrupted oil production, Egyptian and Tunisian migrant workers have lost out.
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When you don't have enough for them to do, you call them migrant workers.
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Jejen Nurjanah from the Indonesian Migrant Workers' Union has helped to train the women.
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The agriculture business is healthy, but many of those jobs go to migrant workers.
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Petros is the general secretary of UVW, which organizes almost exclusively among migrant workers.
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Would you say it's harder for migrant workers to work in sheepherding than agriculture?
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And "The Workers Cup" centers on a soccer tournament for migrant workers in Qatar.
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Migrant workers and families head back to their homes on foot on March 29.
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Especially in the case of Indonesia, where a lot of migrant workers are abroad.
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Many migrant workers and suppliers of materials were roped in to build the complex.
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Informal caregivers, often migrant workers, get less for looking after the elderly at home.
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Informal caregivers, often migrant workers, get less for looking after the elderly at home.
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In addition, small family farms often rely on Mexican and South American migrant workers.
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While these laws mostly target migrant workers, they technically can be applied to anyone.
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That would mean migrant workers would not be forced to leave the premises every day.
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Last year, migrant workers sent home some $9.4 billion in remittances, according to official data.
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The working conditions of many migrant workers in Kuwait, for example, are indistinguishable from slavery.
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In China, for example, rural migrant workers in cities are treated as second-class citizens.
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DLA Piper recommended that Qatar launch an independent study into cardiac deaths among migrant workers.
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There are around 8 million undocumented migrant workers in the U.S., according to the report.
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He said that it often takes months to return the bodies of deceased migrant workers.
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" And added: "I don't give a cent to migrant workers or to migrants in general.
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That usually means more visas for migrant workers who are essential for the farm economy.
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The congregation prayed for migrant workers and their families and for the ending of wars.
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Last month, a fire on board a bus in western Thailand killed 20 migrant workers.
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People from other countries are often undocumented migrant workers who are deported home relatively quickly.
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Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers toil in Surat's numerous weaving, dying and printing factories.
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This speaks to the dreadfully unsafe conditions in which the migrant workers work and live.
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They whisper about migrant workers whose eyes were removed by organ traders while they slept.
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Part of the solution, officials believe, lies with China's hundreds of millions of migrant workers.
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Saldaña's family of migrant workers had been coming to Northeast Wisconsin annually since the 1930s.
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Thailand has more than 3 million migrant workers, according to the International Organization for Migration.
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" There was the time she described migrant workers from Africa as "cancer in our body.
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With legal options for migrant workers shrinking, the Libyan route to Europe has become popular.
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How does the fear of deportation make migrant workers easier to discipline, hurt and rob?
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Their emails and comments on social media drove Xyza to document her fellow migrant workers.
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For decades, migrant workers like Yang have been the engine of China's spectacular economic boom.
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Migrant workers board a truck to return to their villages from Ahmedabad on March 29.
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At least 2,500 souls perished in that flood, mostly black migrant workers from the Caribbean.
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This flow of migrant workers once made Richard Toll a malaria hot spot in Senegal.
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Others survived perilous passages by boat to work as migrant workers elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
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My parents were migrant workers who worked in the beet fields of Minnesota as children.
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It's one thing to talk about migrant workers and immigration in the abstract, for example.
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Many migrant workers also quit their jobs to go home before the holidays, Li said.
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If the trade war drags on, some migrant workers may not have jobs to return to.
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It employed migrant workers from Myanmar who said the company abused them and broke labor regulations.
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Migrant workers used to do the manual work, now Libyans without contacts have taken their place.
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The debate about the merits of Kolpaks in cricket resembles that about migrant workers more generally.
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Thailand, which is already grappling with a labour shortage, has about 1.3 million registered migrant workers.
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Indonesian migrant workers contributed around $9.6 billion in remittances in 2015, according to the World Bank.
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Some officials feared a relaxation of the policy would lead to an influx of migrant workers.
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No. And yet I'm worried about those migrant workers, hands in the soil, kicking up dirt.
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Government data shows that the number of migrant workers in 2015 reached close to 169 million.
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Critics have gone online to denounce the restrictions as a means of discriminating against migrant workers.
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It is the Chinese new year, and migrant workers have come home to see their families.
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The migrant workers will be identified and moved by train to eastern states, the officials said.
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Underground casinos popped up in some apartments; others were turned into cramped hostels for migrant workers.
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For Liu and her fellow migrant workers, Sanyo became their life and Shenzhen their new home.
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They would also ease restrictions on seasonal migrant workers, a priority for farm-district, moderate Republicans.
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In Wuhu, in Anhui Province, the authorities have promised easy commercial bank loans to migrant workers.
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And the visa quota for migrant workers would vary annually to fit changing labor market conditions.
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Only 80 million migrant workers had returned to work by mid-February, according to the government.
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As of 2014, China has 269 million rural migrant workers, a nearly ninefold increase since 1989.
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Migrant workers crowd outside a bus station on the outskirts of New Delhi on March 28.
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Local residents distribute food to migrant workers and families at Zirakpur Ambala Highway, in Chandigarh, India.
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Subsequent announcements have linked most reported cases to migrant workers without mentioning nationalities or specific numbers.
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Building anything in Dubai invariably involves migrant workers, in transactions that often deviate from the law.
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The mistreatment you hear about migrant workers in these states is an offshoot of the culture.
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There are 288m migrant workers in China, of whom 173m work far from their home towns.
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If these employers fold without accounting for their migrant workers, they'll be left quite literally homeless.
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But despite this, female migrant workers are often at the bottom of the socio-economic pile.
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In its statement today, Samsung said: In the context of a media report on the working conditions of migrant workers in labor supply companies, Samsung Electronics conducted an on-site investigation of these companies we work with in Malaysia and the migrant workers hired by these companies.
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Last year Bangladesh's army of migrant workers abroad increased by a record 750,000, to reach 103m-odd.
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They will have dormitory rooms and single rooms for more than 1,300 homeless people, including migrant workers.
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If it is reversed, the most skilled migrant workers may go to jurisdictions with more generous policies.
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The low wages paid to these migrant workers deter Saudi citizens from taking jobs in the sector.
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Despite bringing migrant workers into formal employment, the AWS has failed to make fishing safer, fishermen said.
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Meanwhile, a growing number of migrant workers are employed in the services sector as manufacturing jobs retreat.
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Previously, schemes concentrated on pensioners and migrant workers, the two groups that save the most in China.
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These sectors will therefore be hard hit by measures that put migrant workers at risk of abuse.
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Pregnant women working with these products—primarily migrant workers—were giving birth to children with Johnny's affliction.
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"For migrant workers, a doctor's notice would be too much of a hassle to get," Li said.
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Migrant workers drive motorcycles back to their hometowns in Guangxi province for the Lunar Chinese New Year.
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It is a typical story, says Jolovan Wham of HOME, a charity that works with migrant workers.
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He announced an independent body that he said would oversee Qatar's progress on safeguarding migrant workers' rights.
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She traveled often, to meet people from migrant workers in California to wounded soldiers in Bora Bora.
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But the underlying question of what rights Hong Kong's domestic migrant workers deserve is far from resolved.
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Das said the aim of the competition was to give migrant workers "a voice and a platform".
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In January, 12 people, including 10 migrant workers, died in a fire at another warehouse in Moscow.
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He brought the migrant workers together in California, the grape growers who had real shitty work conditions.
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The economic precariousness forced a substantial number of men to leave for distant lands as migrant workers.
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Urbanization and an influx of migrant workers have also contributed to the prevalence of lynchings, experts said.
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Gray two- and three-story buildings stand along its roads, housing small factories and many migrant workers.
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Themes of industrialization and urbanization, often symbolized by migrant workers, are not new to Chinese contemporary art.
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Thailand does not recognize the status of any refugees or recognize the Rohingya as legitimate migrant workers.
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It has made it permissible for migrant workers to switch jobs while outlawing payments to recruitment firms.
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Yet Taiwanese law prohibits employers from deporting migrant workers or terminating their contracts if they become pregnant.
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It also bans pregnancy testing by employers or recruiters and provides maternity benefits for pregnant migrant workers.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, Qatar's own media outlets have largely ignored the risks faced by the country's migrant workers.
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The appointment of PWC [Pricewaterhouse Cooper] to monitor and report on migrant workers' welfare is also welcome.
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What would the impact be on the countries the migrant workers come from if international migration stopped?
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At the same time, globalization has brought outside influences, particularly from migrant workers who have returned to Guatemala.
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Thailand, for instance, may have as many as 5m migrant workers, mainly from neighbouring Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.
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It is not highly vulnerable to a trade war, the repatriation of profits or curbs on migrant workers.
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Roughly three-quarters of the storm's victims were migrant workers, many of whom were never recovered or identified.
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New Zealand's "recognised seasonal employer" programme began in 230 with 5,000 migrant workers and has grown to 11,000.
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China will prioritize graduates and migrant workers in its efforts to stabilize the job market, Meng told reporters.
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Cricket dominates Google searches in the Gulf states (no doubt largely because South Asian migrant workers love it).
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A week back in the home country sometimes persuades migrant workers from the European Union to stay there.
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Liu Xiaodong, a Chinese artist, paints portraits of migrant workers in a medium often reserved for powerful patrons.
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That image of migrant workers in gritty urban barrios—think "West Side Story"—is itself out of date.
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More than 300,000 people are employed in Thailand's seafood sector, many of them migrant workers from neighboring countries.
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Malaysia has nearly two million registered migrant workers, government figures show, but there are millions without work permits.
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Messaging apps help friends stay in touch, and let migrant workers say goodnight to their children back home.
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That was done specifically in response to a proposed law to make it easier to deport migrant workers.
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"In her death, Sridevi has done a good thing for migrant workers," Reddy told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"There is no single high-rise building that was not built by migrant workers," construction worker An said.
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It was a big undertaking: governments elsewhere in China are reluctant to spend money on housing migrant workers.
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The International Labour Organisation estimates that the Asia-Pacific region was host in 2013 to 25.8m migrant workers.
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The number of temporary migrant workers rose two and a half times between 2002 and 2013, to 127,000.
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In Beijing, the problem of inequality is particularly visible, with migrant workers working each day next to multimillionaires.
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He stressed that British hospitals and care homes relied as much on EU migrant workers as many businesses.
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Migrant workers from Henan have complained about being turned down for jobs because of where they come from.
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China's 290 million migrant workers, who perform low paying but vital work, are critical drivers of the economy.
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But it is unclear whether the government aid has stopped the flood of migrant workers from major cities.
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And every summer, tens of thousands of migrant workers, called "trimmigrants," swarm the area to do just that.
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A municipal worker sprays disinfectant on migrant workers before they board a bus in Lucknow on March 30.
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Migrant workers travel on a crowded bus in Ghaziabad on the outskirts of New Delhi on March 29.
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Details: More than 50 million migrant workers have not yet returned to their jobs, according to official data.
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However, diluting the population of Beijing by evicting migrant workers has an acutely negative impact on the city.
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"Migrant workers are employed and live under a different set of legal rights than Canadians," Mr. Ramsaroop added.
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The following year, the government decided on a new policy: the importation of migrant workers from developing countries.
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When a truck full of Mexican migrant workers returning from Texas rolled by, I thought I'd lucked out.
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She's seated at a California campsite for migrant workers during the Great Depression, and yet she looks timeless.
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Many of them are migrant workers or university students returning to their hometowns for new year family reunions.
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For many years it was also heavily populated with migrant workers and traders from other parts of China.
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Saleheen, the Bangladeshi official, said the government was seeking to improve the way it manages its migrant workers.
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Like thousands of migrant workers swarming Delhi, the victims earned as little as $2 to $3 a day.
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Lost in the haze are the concrete-block dormitories honeycombed with closet-size rooms that house migrant workers.
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In other words, migrant workers have close to no power over their own income, mobility, or well-being.
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But ISIS and other militant groups have been actively recruiting Uzbek migrant workers in the US, Russia, and Europe.
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Up to 3 million Burmese migrant workers live in the country, making them a key focus of Hall's work.
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He says the court accepted that Hall&aposs interviews with migrant workers revealed information that should be made public.
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But migrant workers have complained that heat exhaustion and dehydration are a significant risk while working in summer heat.
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This incident with the migrant workers leads Charley to admit to her sister that she's not a good person.
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Money transfer was the first basic service Toast wanted to provide migrant workers, many of whom are under-banked.
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Throughout the Gulf States, the abuse of the kafala (sponsorship) system directly affects large numbers of foreign migrant workers.
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Thailand does not recognize the status of refugees and it does not recognize the Rohingya as legitimate migrant workers.
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One thing that you might say is maybe a little bit evil is Amazon's treatment of geriatric migrant workers.
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It also called on FGV to commit to recruiting legal migrant workers and this commitment extends to its contractors.
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Wei is the editor of a pro-labor website called New Generation that monitors and reports on migrant workers.
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There are fewer than 300,000 Catholics in Taiwan, with some congregations made up nearly entirely of Filipino migrant workers.
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Bordering Bangladesh, the area is largely populated by poor farmers and migrant workers, and is a hotbed of trafficking.
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The Saudi kingdom is often criticized for its treatment of migrant workers, who are kept in slave-like conditions.
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In Dongguan, migrant workers from inland Chinese provinces still must rely on overtime work just to make ends meet.
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It may be that the problem of job discrimination will be alleviated by a growing shortage of migrant workers.
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That plan too, was criticized for ignoring the needs of poor migrant workers who have lived there for generations.
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Fears the campaign might force migrant workers out of Beijing has raised concerns among some of the city's residents.
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Many rural migrant workers have leased out their land to those who stay in the countryside or commercial entities.
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Thailand has more than 3 million migrant workers, mostly from neighboring Myanmar, according to the International Organization for Migration.
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Nearly 40 percent of its inhabitants were born abroad – it's a capital powered by migrant money and migrant workers.
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His death set off nationwide outrage and led to the revision of regulations controlling the movement of migrant workers.
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In fact, from 22016 to 210, about 22016,200 migrant workers died on the job preparing for this major event.
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"It's unrealistic for migrant workers like us to buy in Wenzhou, unless you've got your own business," Shoufang said.
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These will vary: concerns about EU migrant workers in Britain have little to do with Germany's agonies over refugees.
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The buildings, cramped six-story quarters for migrant workers in the city of Wenzhou, collapsed about 3:25 a.m.
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It looked like a construction site, and was full of migrant workers from places like Shanxi and Inner Mongolia.
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In 2014, 21 defendants were convicted in Handan, northern China, of killing four migrant workers in faked mine accidents.
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Haaretz reported that most of the people in the neighborhood are African asylum seekers and Southeast Asian migrant workers.
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He had come to pick up migrant workers and take them to jobs in factories and restaurants in China.
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Thailand, one of the world's key food exporters, employs an estimated 3 million migrant workers, mostly from neighboring Myanmar.
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Migrant workers in the seafood industry are now free to change employers, and more than 2,000 have done so.
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Od is a member of the "Free Lao", an informal group of Lao migrant workers and activists in Bangkok.
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If government officials rarely speak about needing migrant workers, the infusion of Ukrainians is apparent in many Polish cities.
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His father, Philip Booth, worked for the Labor Department and drafted Social Security legislation and programs for migrant workers.
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More than 30,000 domestic migrant workers live in Cyprus legally, and another 30,000 without legal status, according to Aequitas.
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Ramiro Gomez's work is one in a series of portraits highlighting the role of undocumented immigrant and migrant workers.
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In earlier years, migrant workers would return home at the end of the work season and then cross back.
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When those Mexican migrant workers saw me stuck in that creek, I was mostly concerned with getting home alive.
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And in 2016 there were only 183 cases for the entire year — all of them brought by migrant workers.
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Many of the men were migrant workers from the impoverished border state of Bihar in eastern India, relatives said.
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Most of the victims were Muslim migrant workers from impoverished Bihar State in eastern India, The Associated Press reported.
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Two of those killed were Libyan and the rest appeared to be migrant workers, according to local emergency services.
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Those in the camp comprised local residents and migrant workers from other parts of Myanmar, Saw Shwe Myint said.
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As for low-income migrant workers, they typically leave their children with grandparents back home in villages and townships.
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Under Singaporean law, migrant workers' permits are tied to their employers, who can terminate work permits at any time.
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China's migrant workers, who for 260 years have left inland villages and townships for coastal boomtowns, are growing old.
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After an extended Lunar New Year holiday, many migrant workers may still be stuck in hometowns far from factories.
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As a licensed labor contractor, he had recruited field hands from bars and other places where migrant workers gathered.
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Often it's the case with female migrant workers that the work they do is considered to be quite invisible.
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"There is a huge dependence on migrant workers who have employment terms that are no different than indentured servitude," said Sarah Leah Whitson, director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group that has documented abuses of migrant workers in the neighboring emirate of Abu Dhabi.
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But today, far more are humanitarian migrants instead of needed migrant workers, Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, told Axios.
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Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong, China's most populous province and host to the country's largest number of migrant workers.
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Millions of migrant workers in the Gulf come from Asian countries such as Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Bangladesh and Nepal.
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In the 1960s, a period of high growth, the country opened its borders to migrant workers from Turkey and Morocco.
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It took the migrant workers' union a decade to win official status, eventually conferred by the supreme court in 2015.
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In 2700, migrant workers sent home to their families an estimated $2000 billion ("Saudi Arabia Article IV Consultation", IMF, 225).
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For the many farms that employ migrant workers without legal papers, Mr Trump has a work-visa scheme in mind.
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But its permanent population has risen by 1.7m since 2014, buoyed by the return of some of its migrant workers.
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Mosques in the West have come a long way since migrant workers rolled out plastic mats in their back rooms.
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Other sectors reliant on migrant workers may also find it harder to recruit, including construction, hospitality and the health industry.
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Migrant workers play a key part in Thailand's economy, many of whom work in the food processing and seafood industries.
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Around 90 percent of the Arab state's 2.5 million population are migrant workers from countries including India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
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Resettling migrant workers (20 percent of the population) and poverty alleviation programs will also direct large resources toward domestic spending.
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Nepal is working with India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to better protect the rights of overseas migrant workers, he added.
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Some rights groups say the migrant workers face harsh working conditions, and Thailand tightened rules for work permits last year.
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The employers of these migrant workers are disrespecting their employees' rights by violating the contracts that both of them signed.
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In conclusion, the Qatari migrant workers are being cruelly mistreated by their employers and the system that they live in.
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Rights groups and Western governments have accused Thailand of failing to prevent widespread abuses of migrant workers, including forced labor.
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Mr. Tang said the government could raise the minimum wage for domestic migrant workers or better police the employment agencies.
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Singapore counts on a large number of migrant workers in sectors ranging from construction and manufacturing to the service sector.
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Her family moved to California, and she grew up harvesting crops alongside migrant workers, who taught her to speak Spanish.
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And they have eased the tough laws that traditionally have kept migrant workers from putting down roots in big cities.
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He talked about the roots of his life's work, his approach to gains for migrant workers and the road ahead.
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The expected restrictions on migrant workers come as Americans strip grocery stores bare in preparation for potential orders to quarantine.
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Migrant workers climb out of a refrigerated truck after they were stopped by police in New Delhi on March 30.
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The expected restrictions on migrant workers come as Americans strip grocery stores bare in preparation for potential orders to quarantine.
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Human Rights Watch visited seven World Cup stadium sites in 2016 and 2017 and interviewed 42 Russian and migrant workers.
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The situation improved slightly with the arrival of busloads of migrant workers, brought in to reduce the embarrassment for organizers.
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In response, the government has made it permissible for migrant workers to change jobs while outlawing payments to recruitment firms.
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Experts say the Middle East is at particular risk because of the constant circulation of religious pilgrims and migrant workers.
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There is clear economic evidence that migrant workers fill important gaps in the U.S. labor market across the skills spectrum.
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But the Trump administration has defied these protections, instead putting in place draconian policies meant to target vulnerable migrant workers.
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Camels and migrant workers caught on the wrong side of the frontier when the crisis erupted have found themselves stranded.
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The meeting for the past two years has featured remarks by President Trump, including about migrant workers and broadband access.
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I was living in Washington State several years ago, the last time there was a "crackdown" on illegal migrant workers.
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Upon arrival in the country he, along with other duped migrant workers, was "kicked and forced" onto a fishing boat.
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That's not the case for migrant workers like David, who are the most vulnerable members of the oil-rich country.
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The truth is neither Saudi Arabia nor the UAE showed interest in Qatar's migrant workers prior to this diplomatic rift.
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Countries like the Philippines are the world's largest exporter of women—over 70 percent of Filipino migrant workers are female.
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BROADLY: Do you know exactly how many female migrant workers are in the world and what regions they're concentrated in?
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The scenes of police forcing thousands of migrant workers to leave Beijing last winter might prove to have been a preview.
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Some migrant workers in Bhuj may be able to move into about 600 low-rise homes as early as next year.
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For the time being, however, Bhuj is one of the few cities building low-cost rental homes specifically for migrant workers.
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Students and migrant workers often return to their hometown; it's the country's most important holiday, equivalent to Christmas for many Westerners.
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The Trade Union Centre for Undocumented Migrant Workers helps undocumented workers who are owed money by employers or injured at work.
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China has more than 61 million children that grow up without one or both their parents, who are usually migrant workers.
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"This is a very good verdict for all migrant workers in the country," said Nakhon Chompuchat, a lawyer for the defendants.
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Despite the risks, millions of black migrant workers from rural South Africa and neighboring states flooded the mines as cheap labor.
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And migrant workers have been locked down in other cities, unable to return to their pets in their homes in Shenzhen.
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With home ownership still a distant dream for most low-income migrant workers, the challenge is to make homes more affordable.
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Last week, official advisers recommended prioritizing high-skilled migrant workers coming to Britain after Brexit, alarming companies in low-paid sectors.
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In some Gulf states like Kuwait and Qatar, hundreds of female migrant workers have been punished and imprisoned for zina offences.
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Now waiters serve hearty bowls of lamb soup to migrant workers, traders and shoppers on their way between the two cities.
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"It is ironic that a law that is meant to protect migrant workers may end up hurting them more," he said.
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Many of them are believed to be among the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in Singapore's construction and marine industries.
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Those of us living comfortably in developed nations likely don't see the hardships that befall migrant workers or the unbanked abroad.
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Foreigners, mostly migrant workers, made up just under a third of the malaria patients in Thailand last year, government data shows.
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The number of migrant workers in Beijing has risen fivefold over the past 18 years, peaking at 8.2 million in 2015.
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Earlier in the day, Corbyn told ITV that a Labour government would tackle the exploitation of migrant workers by British employers.
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For many developing countries around the world, the cash that migrant workers send home represents a major source of economic support.
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No one knows what will happen, says Marta Krupinska of Azimo, an online money-transfer service used mainly by migrant workers.
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"The government will still have a big problem at hand regardless of whether the Panyu Migrant Workers' Center exists," Nee said.
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He said then that a list of both reported and unreported cases of mistreatment of Filipino migrant workers would be prepared.
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He said he had expected to be acquitted of all charges because his advocacy work benefited Thai society and migrant workers.
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An elementary school in the village teaches the children of migrant workers who would otherwise not qualify for Shenzhen's public schools.
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Sherpa said it had gathered new testimonies and elements this year in India, where some of the migrant workers originated from.
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Migrant workers were also allegedly forced to work beyond their contracted hours and had their passports taken off them by employers.
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Government and private sector workers have been granted vacations, and migrant workers have been told to return to their home provinces.
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He added that he did not have official data on how many migrant workers had died while cleaning windows this year.
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The raid, which occurred in August, targeted a Mississippi chicken processing plants and resulted in the arrests of 680 migrant workers.
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It's great—it protects the rights of migrant workers in their country of origin and in the country of their destination.
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He later helped connect her with Damayan, a grassroots migrant workers association in New York led by and for Filipina workers.
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A recent assessment of Foxconn's production in the Czech Republic did not identify any issues related to migrant workers, Dell added.
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For the poorest households in the country, the number of migrant workers who had returned to their jobs as of Mar.
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It beautifully humanized the migrant workers who made the world's cheap consumer goods; they formed a band, talked about their dreams.
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Krishnavatar Sharma, whose non-profit Aajevika Bureau runs another help line for migrant workers, said he had been inundated with calls.
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According to Muylaert-Gelein, Spain's need for migrant workers could affect a wide range of crops including tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers.
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A report prepared for lawmakers last year, A National Disgrace, described low pay and long hours for many temporary migrant workers.
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Human rights groups continue to report grave abuses of migrant workers in Qatar, frequently on projects related to the World Cup.
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It is just that it is not one that has been constructed by migrant workers, but by him and his ilk.
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So far, 78 million migrant workers, or 60% of the total who left for the Lunar New Year holiday, have returned.
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The targets include not only criminals, but also migrant workers, ethnic minorities and sympathizers of the protest movement in Hong Kong.
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"It's only fair to set the system in a way that they are not exploited," he said, referring to migrant workers.
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Millions of migrant workers who power China's economy had left urban centers to celebrate the Lunar New Year holiday last month.
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He says Obeta relies on migrant workers to staff the company's warehouses, and that the situation is the same across Europe.
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During the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, about 6.13 million Chinese migrant workers lost their jobs as exports tumbled.
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During the global financial crisis of 2008 and 20193, about 20 million Chinese migrant workers lost their jobs as exports tumbled.
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The Indonesian government currently conducts training for migrant workers before they go abroad, but it focuses on languages and practical skills.
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During the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, about 6.13 million Chinese migrant workers lost their jobs as exports tumbled.
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For other minorities, there are such episodes as the Trail of Tears, Wounded Knee, and the struggle of Latino migrant workers.
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Experts have called on China to ease up on the limits in order to help turn migrant workers into bigger consumers.
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For many migrant workers, construction jobs have dried up as building projects come to a temporary halt, some of them said.
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Migrant workers also ensure the upward mobility of native workers by contributing to economic growth, including through local production and consumption.
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All this is made worse by the fact that a majority of migrant workers in Qatar are already living in poverty.
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Her mother is the founder and principal of Dandelion School in Beijing, a nonprofit school for the children of migrant workers.
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There's another Doha, one that is packed with migrant workers and has, in my opinion, the best food in the city.
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They used drones to deliver crates of Coca-Cola cans (2,734 in total) to migrant workers toiling on a construction site.
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The country's human rights deficit extends into how it mistreats migrant workers who are literally building the subsequent World Cup facilities.
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Iowa derives about a third of its economy from agriculture, which may explain the need for migrant workers in the state.
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Wednesday's verdict will help bolster the rights of migrant workers in the country, said Sutharee Wannasiri at the advocacy group Fortify Rights.
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At peak harvest in 2016 there were more than 83,000 migrant workers on North Carolina farms, according to the Employment Security Commission.
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Saudi Arabia shows up because it hosts an enormous number of migrant workers, not immigrants who resettle, as in the United States.
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Migrant workers place their ID cards on a sensor and stare into a camera that uses face recognition to verify their identity.
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With fewer migrant workers, firms might be forced to train lumpen locals and invest more in technology, thus improving Britain's poor productivity.
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Jones encouraged his youth group to babysit for the children of Latino migrant workers and to visit the elderly in nursing homes.
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It is a major destination for North Korea's migrant workers -- a valuable source of hard currency to the impoverished North Korean state.
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With oil prices still low, though rising, most GCC members are keen to replace migrant workers with their own citizens (see article).
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A check was written, migrant workers hired, and a museum rose from the volcanic mudflats of X. Ticket sales have been sluggish.
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"Without these rights, migrant workers especially in Thailand's biggest export industries remain vulnerable," said Tongchumnum from the Solidarity Center office in Thailand.
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The migrant workers' lack of political rights was a key part of the system, since it kept labor organizing to a minimum.
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The government said last month it would undertake more measures to tackle property inventories, including helping migrant workers buy homes in cities.
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Official data shows the number of migrant workers has risen fivefold over the past 18 years, peaking at 8.2 million in 2015.
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Illegal mines in the country often hire child workers and migrant workers who are poorly paid and have few protections, activists say.
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The fishing and seafood processing sectors together employed more than 600,000 workers in 2017, with about half of those registered migrant workers.
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Migrant workers bend under sacks of flour or lug around huge circular saws for use on the building sites where they work.
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It is also sure to attract many migrant workers from Sichuan, a province of 80m people, to cash in on Tibet's tourism.
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During the harvesting season, which runs from November to May, migrant workers erect flimsy shacks of straw and plastic to live in.
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Migrant workers in Lebanon and much of the Middle East work under the kafala sponsorship system, which binds them to one employer.
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But Thai Union, the world's biggest canned tuna company, told Reuters it expected no impact because all its migrant workers were legal.
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The human cost is not coming from the Qatari people themselves, but from the migrant workers who have flocked to the country.
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Parliament last year adopted the Modern Slavery Act to crack down on the trafficking and exploitation of migrant workers and other laborers.
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None of the militant groups that are fighting Indian rule in Muslim majority Kashmir claimed responsibility for the attack on migrant workers.
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For the migrant workers CNN spoke to, the government's assurances fall on deaf ears and the middle-class sympathy is cold comfort.
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British farms, food processors and restaurants — which all rely heavily on migrant workers — also complained on Thursday that they faced labour shortages.
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Not only do families of migrant workers benefit, the study found; so does everybody else, when the families spend that money locally.
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LaborVoices is also tracking abuse of Syrian migrant workers in Turkey's garment industry, seeking evidence of forced labor and trafficking, Khanna said.
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Most were converted into living spaces and rented out to migrant workers or residents trying to duck Beijing's soaring real estate prices.
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A new report by Mission for Migrant Workers (MFMW) details just how bad the material conditions are for live-in domestic workers.
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HONG KONG — Twenty migrant workers from Myanmar were killed when their bus caught fire in northwestern Thailand early Friday, the police said.
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Her second installation in the Biennial involves luggage made of burlap bags — the kind that Nepali and other migrant workers commonly use.
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News reports said that such heaters were widely available despite attempts to ban them, especially in poorer areas where migrant workers live.
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Xyza's next chapter was to document the trafficked migrant workers in Singapore, with a grant by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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But his arrest, far from reassuring the public, has raised questions about the treatment of migrant workers on the Mediterranean island nation.
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A soldier on guard stands next to migrant workers as they wait for buses along a highway in Ghaziabad on March 28.
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Ms. Valdez is from a family of migrant workers and was raised in one of the poorest ZIP codes in San Antonio.
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Protections against that type of labor abuse against migrant workers in the United States were virtually non-existent in the 1990's.
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Kuwaiti nationals are guaranteed public-sector employment as part of the oil wealth distribution, while most private-sector employees are migrant workers.
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Last year, Human Rights Watch accused Qatar of subjecting migrant workers building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup to life-threatening conditions.
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RICHARD TOLL, Senegal — Thousands of seasonal migrant workers flock to Richard Toll, a dusty city in northern Senegal near the Mauritania border.
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Many businesses are closed during the holiday, while hundreds of millions of migrant workers return home to their families in the countryside.
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Much of Mr. ya Toivo's energy went into challenging South Africa's quasi-annexation of Namibia and seeking better conditions for migrant workers.
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More than a third of the UAE's registered 8 million migrant workers were Indian as of 2017, the latest U.N. data shows.
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Russia officially employs some 40,000 North Korean migrant workers, and possibly more, many of whom work in construction in major Russian cities.
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Mr. Ramesh cleans the rooms of other migrant workers in exchange for minutes on their phones to call his wife in India.
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Since the blockade, news agencies from the Saudi-led coalition have taken a sudden interest in the fate of Qatar's migrant workers.
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And each had also escaped deteriorating conditions in Libya, where migrant workers are routinely tortured, held for ransom and kept as slaves.
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It employs millions of its migrant workers, controls the media and information space, and believes that it can make or break governments there.
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The United Nations' migration agency has previously contracted the carrier to help bring migrant workers trapped in Syria back to their home countries.
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Thailand is a regional center for migrant workers who come from poorer, neighboring countries including Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia in search of jobs.
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Despite playing a vital role in the state's large agricultural sector, migrant workers have been largely ignored in the aftermath of the disaster.
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Udaya Rai, a Nepali who heads South Korea's migrant workers' union, says little effort is made to protect migrants from exploitation or violence.
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" In the current system, Costa believes that "US workers are getting screwed and migrant workers who come here are getting screwed as well.
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The average wage of migrant workers is still rising, reaching 21,2510 yuan a month in 23, but the growth in wages has slowed.
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The bus, which was carrying migrant workers from Uzbekistan, was shunted several hundred metres down the track, Russia's Rossiya 24 TV channel reported.
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"Treating India's migrant workers like second class citizens is completely unacceptable," Rahul Gandhi, leader of the opposition Congress party, said in a tweet.
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Complaints of abuse are frequent and, in order to save money, many migrant workers do not seek medical attention when they are ill.
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For many migrant workers, however, this year's journey home may be their final one, as slowing growth puts paid to their city dreams.
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"Many migrant workers in the sex trade, domestic work, and agriculture emigrate and work voluntarily," said Savannah Sly, board president of SWOP-USA.
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But while it is seen as the crown jewel of Italian agriculture, migrant workers have dubbed the Italian tomato business as "red gold".
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Neel's book opens on a train in Southern China, where he is surrounded by migrant workers moving among home villages and factory towns.
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Bryce said the position always made sense to him after seeing what rural migrant workers in his state dealt with from the agency.
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Al Quoz is one of the only points in Dubai where the elite fashion set and these low-paid migrant workers cross paths.
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In Saudi Arabia, foreigners, including migrant workers, accounted for about half of the country's documented executions, often for minor offenses like drug dealing.
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He said the audits have so far turned up "nothing extreme", but they have uncovered some problems including poor accommodation for migrant workers.
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They also suggest that migrant workers should be given time and the means to keep in contact with the families they've left behind.
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Thailand's fishing industry employs more than 300,000 people, many of them migrant workers from neighboring countries who are often subject to ill-treatment.
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It begins on a sprawling tomato farm, staffed by migrant workers who sleep in firetraps, neglected by the family that owns the business.
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Others, like the migrant workers in Thailand, break down used electronics with cooking stoves and shredders and wear no protection against the emissions.
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Transport disruptions will also make it difficult for migrant workers to return from holidays once businesses are officially allowed to reopen, they said.
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At a golf course managed by the president's company, migrant workers employed by a local contractor complain they are not paid on time.
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Hundreds of millions of migrant workers who were visiting family in cities outside the main manufacturing hubs for Chinese New Year were quarantined.
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For Shas, migrant workers — small as their numbers may be, powerless as they are — represent a direct threat to the country's Jewish makeup.
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Yet one place the valley's bounty of antioxidants does not often appear is on the tables of the migrant workers who harvest it.
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And many migrant workers returning to their home villages carried bundles of clothes and gifts for children they see maybe once a year.
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Large cities in China such as Beijing and Shanghai are hosts to massive populations of migrant workers from the countryside seeking economic opportunities.
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"It hasn't been a hospitable environment for migrant workers, which have boosted housing booms in the past," said Richardson, the Edward Jones strategist.
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More than 10 million migrant workers from Hubei province alone might also face discrimination from employers fearful that they may spread the virus.
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For many migrant workers from the countryside, the Lunar New Year break is the only opportunity to spend extended time with their children.
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America is a cacophony of joy, violence, filth, urban sprawl, suburban cul-de-sacs, farms, migrant workers, apolitical people — the list goes on.
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Migrant workers descend from some of the poorest nations on earth — Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines — seeking to support families at home.
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Maria and Rianne were rescued by authorities after calling Taiwan's hotline for migrant workers when their passports and alien residence certificates were taken.
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And, alone in her room in the Qatari capital of Doha, migrant workers like Karen David worried about whether they'd pay the price.
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Migrant workers in Qatar are employed through the Kafala labor system, which gives their employers a staggering degree of control over their lives.
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The country's business-owning citizens may not feel the pinch from these adjustments, but the ripple effects on migrant workers will be extensive.
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In other words, as Goa noted, these governments seem to be using the experiences of migrant workers as little more than political pawns.
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After years of living in Beijing, Mr. Sheng said, "the pollution, the migrant workers, and the cold" had made the capital city uninhabitable.
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"Migrant workers are made to work even in the sweltering heat," said Geetha Ramakrishnan of Nirman Mazdoor Panchayat Sangam, a construction workers' union.
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A 2013 report from the International Trade Union Commission estimated that 4,000 migrant workers would die between 2014 and the 2022 World Cup.
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Rothna Begum: I don't have the full global number, but some estimate that there could be up to 66.6 million women migrant workers.
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Aadhaar was built to establish a "digital identity" in an enormous nation with migrant workers who often don't have ID. Begum's story is heartbreaking.
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An estimated 150m migrant workers have left their rural homes for jobs in the big cities, though many of them might return home eventually.
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Known for its fields upon fields of sweet potatoes, tobacco and peanuts, North Carolina's agricultural engine is powered by more than 83,563 migrant workers.
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Since 1999, Germany has tried several times to restrict the number of foreign migrant workers, in order to lure unemployed locals into the fields.
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There have been many news stories covering the abuse and ill-treatment of migrant workers drafted in to build infrastructure for Qatar's World Cup.
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Because food is now so cheap in the cities, migrant workers are able to send more money back to their families in the villages.
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Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers hoping to escape poverty and provide for their families depart South Asia every year for the Gulf region.
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A number of migrant workers, who are predominantly Southeast Asian and live in slums, reportedly earn as little as AED 700 (£127) a month.
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Since the labour regulation was announced, tens of thousands of migrant workers from Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos have fled Thailand, immigration officials have said.
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Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan also received remittances worth at least 10% of GDP—more than the Philippines, a country famous for its migrant workers.
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It underlines Thailand's full commitment to raising the standards of labor protection for both Thai and migrant workers and eliminating forced labor, he added.
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On Facebook, Malik has joined several groups related to her targets, including communities that deal with migrant workers and forced labour, Amnesty's report reads.
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Migrant workers comprise two-thirds of Kuwait's population of 4 million, which has the highest migrant worker-to-citizen ratio in the Middle East.
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And because most migrant workers are men, the places where they cluster have wildly unbalanced sex ratios, making them even more dangerous for women.
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The municipal government has denied that the evictions are targeting migrant workers, or that they're part of the wider plan to reduce Beijing's population.
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Angola this month launched a crackdown on illegal diamond mining, expelling hundreds of thousands of migrant workers back to neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The "leave" camp argues that it has been too easy for "migrant workers" from Europe to waltz into the country and take British jobs.
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Several of those initially infected by the virus were foreigners, many believed to be among the thousands of migrant workers in Singapore's construction industry.
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However, since they were migrant workers, and because labor laws didn't seem all that stringent at the time, their disappearance wasn't noticed for weeks.
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China's huge population of migrant workers affords some of the country's most notorious mass killers the cover they need to elude capture for years.
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Some states such as Gujarat and Bihar are building shelters for migrant workers, with options such as long-term rentals, clinics and family rooms.
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Migrant workers, along with college graduates, will benefit from the policy, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement on its website.
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Months have passed since the Guggenheim broke off six years of negotiations with the Gulf Labor Coalition over migrant workers' rights in Abu Dhabi.
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The translation feels timely because "Yellow Negroes'" twin themes of undocumented migrant workers and the damaging legacy of European colonialism have not gone away.
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At the nearby White Horse Village, two artists speculated on the afterlife of a tiny abandoned house, formerly a temporary shelter for migrant workers.
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The island is changing in other ways as well, with a yearly influx of migrant workers who come to work on the tomato farms.
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There is also concern about the tens of millions of migrant workers returning to offices, malls and factories, triggering a new round of infections.
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NEW DELHI — Migrant workers are being doused with disinfectant after being forced to walk hundreds of miles home as India grapples with the coronavirus.
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There, thousands of migrant workers are toiling in inhuman conditions to build designs such as Zaha Hadid's; according to The Guardian, hundreds have died.
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The company reduced operations by asking migrant workers not to return to factories in Shenzhen on February 10, after the Lunar New Year break.
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Cities are starting to arrange special trains to take migrant workers back from hometowns that they visited over the recent Lunar New Year holiday.
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Last year, Mexicans received more than 215 percent of the approximately 2000,230 H-212B visas issued by the United States to migrant workers worldwide.
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"This program is a form of apartheid," said Chris Ramsaroop, an organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers, a labor rights organization based in Ontario.
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When that happens, it is almost always the most vulnerable — the slum residents, the migrant workers, the undocumented immigrants — who will suffer the consequences.
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She grew up in what she described as the poorest neighborhood in San Antonio, the daughter of migrant workers and youngest of eight children.
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Nomura estimated that only around 30-40% of migrant workers have returned and expected the lockdown in Hubei to be extended into mid-March.
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Health care inequality could also be a problem for China's migrant workers, who have returned home over the Lunar New Year period, Gallagher said.
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Al-Kalash says she will never stop fighting for the rights of migrant workers, trying to improve their situation one case at a time.
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"In times of crackdowns, migrant workers risk being fired by their employers, which can lead to irregular status or loss of wages," Olsen said.
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"Whilst remaining in compliance with Thailand's ... laws, systematic exploitation of migrant workers has arisen in Cal-Comp's migrant worker recruitment channels," the report read.
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Today's activists are calling for greater equality in Chinese society, as well as better treatment for minority groups, migrant workers and lower income groups.
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Low-skilled migrant workers earn less overall than native workers of the same education level, in part because they are disqualified from certain benefits.
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Born in New Mexico and raised by a family of migrant workers, Montoya devoted his life and practice to securing rights for Chicano laborers.
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"More advanced manufacturing will require higher skilled labour, putting older and generally less well educated migrant workers at greater risk of unemployment," Burg says.
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Despite often enjoying middle- or upper-middle-class status, artists are typically just as vulnerable to displacement as migrant workers and low-income dwellers.
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Their departure in recent days followed news of violence in Gujarat against migrant workers from the central states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
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"Seasonal migrant workers contribute significantly to the economy, yet they are not recognized as citizens in the city, and live in dismal conditions," she said.
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The government denies this but the Hotline for Refugees and Migrant Workers, an Israeli non-governmental organization, is challenging the law in Israel's High Court.
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In addition to death and injury, migrant workers in the Gulf state face low pay, long working hours, squalid accommodation and limited access to amenities.
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"A lot of migrant workers, their lives are very dependent to their employer," she said, including services like transportation to church, stores, or medical attention.
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Lawyers such as Go Jieun, part of a group that represents migrant workers free of charge, encourage them to record unfair treatment on their phones.
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As a result, once-spacious courtyard homes are now divided into smaller crammed houses or sheds that are rented out cheaply to poor migrant workers.
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This is in addition to continued mass vaccination efforts including targeting travelers, especially migrant workers, to and from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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However, reports have indicated many Indian migrant workers face tough employment conditions in the region and face the dangers of political instability in the region.
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Foremen at a strawberry farm in the southwestern Greek town of Manolada opened fire on dozens of migrant workers protesting over unpaid wages in 2013.
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The Indonesian government says the ban was introduced to protect its citizens, but campaigners say the law leaves migrant workers at greater risk of trafficking.
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Kuwait, like many Middle Eastern countries, practices "kafala," a labor system where migrant workers rely on their employers for visa sponsorships and maintaining legal status.
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"The abuse of migrant workers is a stain on the conscience of world football," Salil Shetty, Amnesty International secretary general, said in a news release.
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Kakande went undercover to write his autobiographical novel 'The Ambitious struggle' which uncovered the plight and human rights abuses of migrant workers in the UAE.
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"We are making all efforts to protect migrant workers and to ensure that they are not exploited," Adhikari told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
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Migrant workers Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were sentenced to death last month for the 2014 murder of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller.
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Jutting is said to have tortured and killed two migrant workers in his luxurious one-bedroom apartment that he rented for nearly $4,000 a month.
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Mass movement leaves undocumented workers vulnerable, said Andy Hall, a migrant workers' rights expert who has monitored migration in Thailand for more than a decade.
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The players — carpenters, drivers and masons — are just a fraction of the thousands of migrant workers who are actively building Qatar into a modern state.
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But for women in India's villages and for migrant workers who do not have bank accounts, it may take a while to recover, Moghe said.
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He moved to Shenzhen, a sprawling coastal city, and found a job as a courier, becoming one of China's quarter of a billion migrant workers.
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I wanted my students to understand that the United States accepts that migrant workers come here to earn money, especially along the border with Mexico.
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The bus station also serves as a host for different events, like the annual beauty contest for migrant workers from the Philippines residing in Israel.
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In the central province of Henan, the government will subsidize city home purchases by migrant workers and give them easier access to an urban hukou.
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So I did my own essays, I went to Arkansas and did a series on migrant workers, and I would bring it up to Life.
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So when a nation like India lobbies to secure better conditions for its migrant workers, recruiters simply start hiring women from a less demanding country.
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Daily wage migrant workers generally live hand-to-mouth, earning between 2000-266 Indian rupees ($278-$245) per day, according to the International Labour Organization.
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But that did not stop migrant workers from reciting it at protests and other gatherings this winter, as the rate of evictions in Beijing intensified.
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Immigration debates were once much more bipartisan, with some Democrats in favor of more stringent immigration restrictions and some Republicans championing visas for migrant workers.
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The bill includes language that would require employers to hire American workers before petitioning for migrant workers, language aimed at ensuring U.S. employees aren't displaced.
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Like so many migrant workers, Mr Liu lives in the east, near Hangzhou, leaving his sons, 16 and 12, with their grandparents in rural Sichuan.
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China has about 300 million migrant workers, but many were stuck in the countryside and unable to go to cities as the virus took hold.
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The Netherlands took in hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in the 1960s and 1970s but now has one of the EU's toughest immigration policies.
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Migrant workers are a soft target for militants, and during the past few weeks 11 have been killed, including the victims of this latest atrocity.
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According to U.N. estimates, there are about twenty-five million migrant workers in the Gulf, the majority of them construction workers from the Indian subcontinent.
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My "dirty mission" was my thesis research, and the "confidential information" I sought was about the labor conditions of migrant workers in the capital, Doha.
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The border was open for migrant workers to cross to harvest crops as they ripened; generally, workers returned to Mexico when the growing season ended.
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It's a popular belief that many migrant workers and backpackers are unaware of the minimum working conditions in Australia, but the report challenges this notion.
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Anti-trafficking campaigners said the conviction would send a "strong message" and urged Singapore authorities to raise awareness among migrant workers so they report violations.
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The government says there is no ban on migrant workers becoming pregnant and that it runs a hotline so foreign workers can report any mistreatment.
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The campaign has pitted migrant workers' dreams of better lives against an authoritarian vision of an orderly, regimented society embraced by the ruling Communist Party.
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They shadowed social workers as they made the rounds of overcrowded apartments, visited prisons where juveniles and migrant workers were held and observed court proceedings.
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Traditional financial institutions are hesitant to serve many migrant workers they consider not credit-worthy because they had little savings and lacked credit histories, Siwoku explained.
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Labour rights abuses have come under the spotlight in Malaysia, which relies on nearly two million migrant workers to staff its plantations, factories and construction sites.
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Nara Bahadur Thapa, an official at the central bank, said Nepal received 70 billion rupees ($640 million) in remittances from migrant workers in India every year.
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The lower cost of living in Kolkata also allows migrant workers to put a little aside to send to families who stayed at home, they said.
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There are more than 300,000 Indian migrant workers in the tiny Gulf state of one million people, according to the Indian embassy in Manama. eoi.gov.in/bahrain/?
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There was a time when migrant workers rolled through town with their specialist ability (usually honed over a period of years) and kept things running smoothly.
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Manila said last Friday a team would be sent to the kingdom, which has about 1 million Filipino migrant workers, to provide humanitarian and legal assistance.
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Meanwhile, thousands of migrant workers have left the city due to the halt in their work lives and the growing inconvenience caused by G266.1 preparation measures.
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He founded Amrakajona ("We Are" in Bengali) as a group for Bengali migrant workers interested in poetry, as well as another poetry group, Singapore Bengali Literature.
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Around 260 migrant workers from India died in the whole of Qatar in 2015, according to figures from the Indian embassy in Doha seen by Reuters.
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Related: Illustrating a Migrant's Experience in 3D Art New Banksy Mural Lampoons 'Les Miserables' for Refugees A Mechanical Sculpture Reframes the Legacy of Mexican Migrant Workers
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Angela Sherwood, who researches labor rights for Nepali migrant workers for Amnesty International, tells Axios that exploitation often starts at the very beginning of the journey.
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To date, Azimo makes most of its transactions across Europe, targeting (as many remittance startups do) migrant workers who send money mostly to family back home.
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She set out to raise money to provide school supplies for children of migrant workers in Gurgaon — and raised enough to give supplies to 50 children.
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Thailand has more than 3 million migrant workers, according to the International Organization for Migration, although rights groups put the figure higher, as many are undocumented.
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It will be shown at the Metropolis Art Cinema in Beirut on Tuesday, its first major public screening, with ticket proceeds going to support migrant workers.
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Migrant workers in these countries are under tremendous pressure to finish their contracts so they can continue to financially support their families back home, campaigners say.
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Especially for farmer Joe Del Bosque, the son of Mexican migrant workers, who worked as a boy in the fields picking melons and driving the tractor.
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By contrast, the third-class legal status of many migrant workers makes them extra-cheap (see article) and puts them at the mercy of their employers.
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Foreign governments and non-governmental organizations had closely watched Hall's case as a gauge of how serious Thailand is about addressing forced labor of migrant workers.
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But it has drawn some attention to a large, often overlooked slice of Singapore's population: its 1m "work permit" holders—migrant workers on two-year contracts.
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The emirate has opened branches of American universities and a "Church City"—unthinkable in Saudi Arabia—where priests count their congregations of migrant workers in thousands.
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Last month eight Bangladeshi migrant workers were detained in Singapore, having allegedly formed a group called Islamic State in Bangladesh and plotted attacks in their homeland.
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Chinese leaders said last month the government would take more steps in 2016 to tackle property inventories, including helping migrant workers to buy homes in cities.
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For many years after, migrant workers continued crossing the border to harvest crops as they ripened; generally, workers returned to Mexico when the growing season ended.
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During his time there, he met the 2022 World Cup organizing committee and the country's emir and visited a new city built to house migrant workers.
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Almost immediately, the government was accused of devastating human rights abuses, forcing migrant workers to live in conditions that have been equated to modern-day slavery.
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The French company denied that some migrant workers had seen their passports confiscated and said employees could access their documents stored in safes at any time.
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Among the concerns of rights groups are the treatment of women and the labor conditions of migrant workers helping to build the infrastructure for the games.
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Organizer Shivaji Das said he had seen a surge in what he termed "activism poems" in recent years which talk about the struggles of migrant workers.
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Keeping this application in your stories allows your companies and your American employees to be accomplices in the oppression of Saudi Arabian women and migrant workers.
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Giving migrant workers the right to form unions, and allowing campaigners to speak up can empower them, said Surya Deva, another member of the U.N. group.
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Faced with winter temperatures as low as minus 40, migrant workers burn raw coal or even garbage to heat their homes, filling the air with smoke.
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It stretches north for hundreds of miles, from the auburn deserts of Arizona into the farmlands of Colorado, where migrant workers grow and harvest organic kale.
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Afterward, she dashed to a graduation ceremony for a course on money management offered by Uplifters, a nonprofit group that offers online education to migrant workers.
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When their contracts are up, they will be sent home, with another group of migrant workers brought in as required — replaceable cogs in a tireless machine.
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Mr. Hua's work documenting the evictions of migrant workers touched a nerve with the authorities, said Patrick Poon, a Hong Kong-based researcher for Amnesty International.
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For dairy farmers like Mr. McMahon, if even one of his migrant workers leaves, the absence has a drastic effect on his 2,300-acre farm operation.
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"I was interested in the migration of plants as it relates to humans and as weeds as a symbol of migrant workers in Europe," Huseby says.
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Thousands of migrant workers arrive every year for the tomato and orange harvests, squeezing into hurricane-scarred trailers and one-room shacks, multiplying local health needs.
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As a result, some migrant workers living in cities say they have been forced to pay thousands of dollars in medical expenses to treat sick relatives.
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His parents came to the U.S. from Jamaica — his father was a contract sugar-cane cutter in South Florida, and his mother cooked for migrant workers.
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In the run-up to the soccer tournament Qatar has come under international criticism for its treatment of migrant workers and has introduced various labor reforms.
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Less picturesque complexes, though, tend to be occupied by migrant workers, many of whom lack of residency permits, which makes the future of these homes tenuous.
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According to the association, the industry in Tiruppur employs an estimated 800,000 workers, most of them migrant workers accommodated in cramped hostels run by the factories.
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For International Women's Day 2017, we asked Rothna Begum, women's rights researcher for Human Rights Watch, to help us envisage a world without female migrant workers.
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He hires migrant workers to harvest the fields located near their well-furnished, two-story brick home, which has been passed down and renovated through several generations.
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His comments suggested the government may seek to offer more access to migrant workers with skills that are in high demand for specific sectors of the economy.
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Although neighboring Qatar recently moved to implement better protections for migrant workers ahead of the 2022 World Cup, no such move has been announced in Saudi Arabia.
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The migrant workers had been forced to work 12-hour days under the supervision of armed guards and went on strike on three occasions for back pay.
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Some rights activists warned of a possible backlash against migrant workers from Central Asia who have in the past been targeted for beatings by far-right groups.
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He referred specifically to the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme, which brought in migrant workers from Pacific islands including Samoa, Tonga and Fiji to do agricultural work.
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Dewi Kholifah from the Jakarta-based group Human Trafficking Watch, which assists Indonesian migrant workers, urged Malaysia to halt the crackdown and target traffickers and employers instead.
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Indonesia, Ethiopia and the Philippines have banned the flow of migrant workers to Saudi Arabia until they could be assured the workers were given basic labor rights.
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And factory farms exploit and egregiously mistreat their employees: According to the Food Empowerment Project, many factory farm workers are migrant workers from Central and Latin America.
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He is much more blunt, however, about scrapping a subsidy to the ASTI association that gives support to migrant workers on issues including how to claim pensions.
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There were also protests in other key cities outside the capital as workers' groups demanded higher wages, improved working conditions, including for millions of migrant workers abroad.
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Migrant workers would be able to chat with their families over video for the first time without having to set up email accounts or look for desktops.
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Once abroad, migrant workers often have their passports confiscated and find themselves trapped in forced labor - having to work for years to clear their debts - activists say.
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"I agree to clean windows, but if you are not safe, of course not," she said at a recent rally for migrant workers' rights in Hong Kong.
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Such initiatives are also slowly making inroads in the Middle East, which is known for its notorious "kafala" sponsorship system that binds migrant workers to one employer.
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China is looking for ways to get migrant workers to help buy up a huge glut of unsold homes that is dragging down the country's economic growth.
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Toast, a startup that helps make cross-border payments easier and cheaper for migrant workers living overseas, is the latest to help itself to money from investors.
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Suleman says that migrant workers, particularly those in the sex work industry, are the most likely to have trouble navigating administrative systems and dealing with public services.
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Activists said the new law, which applies to 300,000 migrant workers as well as Thais, was another step forward, but questioned the government's ability to enforce it.
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But many, if not all, of the victims were likely to be migrant workers who had worked or lived in the cramped, inexpensive rooms of the building.
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Cracks in the world's largest lockdown Thousands of migrant workers are attempting to leave India's major cities after a government lockdown left them without jobs or pay.
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Although it is loosely based on the story of the famous 1841 classic, Mr. Khan updates the story to a world of migrant workers and powerful landlords.
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Dell said it required that suppliers ensure migrant workers receive contracts that enumerate employment terms in a language they understand, and worked with suppliers to correct violations.
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An artist who was detained by the police after documenting mass expulsion of migrant workers from the Chinese capital was released Monday on bail, a friend said.
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But when the US began to ramp up border security in the early 26s, many of these migrant workers decided it wasn't worth the dangerous border crossings.
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It's taking longer for Chinese migrant workers this year to return to their jobs in larger cities, as the virus outbreak has restricted travel throughout the country.
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Ruijin, which means smart gold, now employs 300 workers but plans to expand to 1,000 after the Chinese New Year holiday, when many migrant workers come home.
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"Many migrant workers continue to believe that the cumbersome process does not outweigh the speed, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of irregular channels," Lim of the IOM said.
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Ms. Jaffrey, of the University of Chicago, said that lynching tended to happen in industrial towns like Bekasi that had developed rapidly and swelled with migrant workers.
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In response, Mr. Xi said the government would provide financial support for businesses, help migrant workers return to their jobs and step up support for construction projects.
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The province, which is home to more than 10 million migrant workers, remains shut off from the rest of China, and business has ground to a halt.
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If labor costs and migrant workers were the trade policy issues of the 20th century, carbon border taxes are the frontier of trade policy in the 21st.
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Many migrant workers from the countryside linger at home for precious time with children and parents, whom they rarely or never see the rest of the year.
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In 2001, the husband-and-wife team of Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen created "Dancing With Migrants," hiring migrant workers to perform choreographed movements within gallery spaces.
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Guangdong government said it has sent nearly 234 chartered trains in the past two weeks to bring more than 6,000 migrant workers back from their inland hometowns.
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Hubs in east and south China are seeing hundreds of thousands of migrant workers returning to work and more traffic on the roads during rush hours.7.
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"Migrant workers being scapegoated is just going to increase their level of vulnerability to human trafficking," said Neha Misra, anti-slavery specialist at U.S.-based Solidarity Center.
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The Gulf state relies on about 2 million migrant workers for the bulk of its labor force, mainly from Asian countries like Nepal, India and the Philippines.
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Working in a city without a minimum wage, they earn a fraction of the salaries of white collar employees who toil in offices the migrant workers construct.
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Reforms: The government has made it easier for migrant workers from rural areas to obtain residency and access to social benefits in medium-size and smaller cities.
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Our correspondent talked to migrant workers in the Czech manufacturing hub of Pardubice, and found many working under conditions and for pay that few citizens would accept.
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The welfare of the migrant workers who will support the construction of Zayed National Museum has been, and remains, a matter which the British Museum takes seriously.
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Currently Toast is available in the Hong Kong-Philippines remittance corridor, where Filipino migrant workers send back as much as 7 million Hong Kong dollars ($902,370.07) a month.
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Beyond that you'll find an always-bustling intersection jammed with shoppers, street hawkers, cars, busses, trucks of migrant workers bound for the US, and people begging for change.
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To prevent migrant workers from undercutting natives, New Zealand's farmers must show they have tried to hire local people, and must pay migrants more than the prevailing wage.
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Another potential obstacle is that more than 70 percent of migrant workers already living in cities prefer to rent, according to National Health and Family Planning Commission data.
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Saudi Arabia has resumed issuing visas to migrant workers from Bangladesh, who send home $3bn a year in remittances, almost on a par with Bangladesh's total foreign aid.
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On Wednesday, hundreds of migrant workers waited at a bus stop in Srinagar, anxious to get out as quick as possible, as crowds gathered to protest, once again.
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He urged Malaysia to reassess its methods for measuring poverty and take into account vulnerable groups excluded from the data such as stateless families, migrant workers, and refugees.
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Twitter accounts for DSA National Design Committee and Artists for Bernie feature burgeoning artists like Leah Romero, whose miniature paintings place migrant workers on the White House lawn.
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DEJAN, a 51-year-old Serb standing outside a scruffy apartment block for migrant workers in Nitra, an hour's drive from Bratislava, the Slovakian capital, couldn't be happier.
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During the winter of 2017, when the Beijing authorities started clearing out migrant workers living in tenement style housing, Kuaishou was the only platform to document the evictions.
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Because of the lack of airplay, Juluka (later Savuka) took to the road performing in hostels for migrant workers and in halls and other venues in black townships.
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Migrant workers building a stadium for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar "have suffered systematic abuses, in some cases forced labor," a new report from Amnesty International claims.
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The NDRC will scrap restrictions in cities of 1 to 3 million on coveted household registration permits for out-of-towners, which include migrant workers and college graduates.
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Migrant workers in garment and footwear factories are forced to undergo regular pregnancy tests, according to the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a coalition of companies, universities and charities.
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The report states that Malaysia - a export manufacturing hub and the largest destination for migrant workers in Southeast Asia - has the most restrictive legal environment for female migrants.
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Police spokesman Diaz said around 1,000 local residents and migrant workers who pan for gold in Mimika were being prevented by the separatists from leaving the five villages.
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Top Glove said it was not aware of its labor suppliers charging exorbitant fees to migrant workers but vowed to investigate and severe ties with unethical recruitment agents.
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Malaysia's new government, which came to power in May on promises to reform - ousting a long-ruling, corruption-mired coalition - has vowed to improve conditions for migrant workers.
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The calls for action come as rising numbers of migrants travel to Europe from North Africa and the Middle East, raising concerns of increased exploitation of migrant workers.
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Migrant workers are a soft target for militants, and during the past few weeks 11 have been killed, including the victims of this latest atrocity, the government said.
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It has nearly two million registered migrant workers, according to government data, but rights groups say there are also many others who work in the country without permits.
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The United Nations says dozens of civilians including Libyans and migrant workers are trapped in several districts in Benghazi, where they face shortages of food and medical supplies.
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A national urban rental housing policy, which commits to social rental housing for vulnerable groups including migrant workers and the urban poor, has remained a draft since 2015.
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MOSCOW — A fire at a printing warehouse in northern Moscow that killed at least 17 migrant workers on Saturday was triggered by a faulty electrical lamp, officials said.
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A campaign to clean up "low-end population" has evicted migrant workers from Beijing, and a campaign against dissent has evicted the most outspoken intellectuals from online debate.
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Others were called out for condoning, if not actively supporting, inhumane labor practices, like those imposed on migrant workers building new Guggenheim and Louvre franchises in Abu Dhabi.
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The government must also allow activists to speak up without fear of retribution and better protect migrant workers, said the U.N. working group on business and human rights.
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One example is Bluepan, a South Korean company that helps migrant workers in Japan and South Korea send funds back to their families in the Philippines and China.
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The policies have also put asylum claimants and families, who take some time to process, into facilities designed to house unauthorized migrant workers who can be deported quickly.
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In a statement, the company added that migrant workers, who hold agency contracts, did not work beyond the legal workweek and were paid above the Czech minimum wage.
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The State Council added in the memo that migrant workers outside Hubei and Beijing no longer needed to be subject to quarantine rules if they met certain criteria.
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Factories came almost to a halt, because migrant workers who left for New Year celebrations could not return to their workplaces, thus impeding production and China's trade capacity.
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The energy-producing country relies on about 2 million migrant workers for the bulk of its labour force, mainly from Asian countries like Nepal, India and the Philippines.
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Last year, he made work in a former war zone in Iraq and cast former migrant workers in a cinematic retelling of the life of Jesus in Italy.
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However, a strict residency permit system known as "hukou" prevents migrant workers from accessing local public services such as education for their children, resulting in numerous social problems.
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The epidemic was spreading in the midst of the Lunar New Year, a holiday when hundreds of millions of migrant workers return to their villages in the countryside.
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Migrant workers in East Asia have more freedom to congregate during their days off and to own and use mobile phones than their counterparts in the Middle East.
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The preparation should also incorporate modules about religious extremism, and describe recruitment by radical groups as a form of exploitation because jihadis often extract money from migrant workers.
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Migrant workers are particularly vulnerable, as they often live in informal settlements, said Isaac Selva, founder of Slum Jagatthu, a non-profit magazine on slum dwellers in Bangalore.
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From factories to construction sites and plantations, Malaysia is home to an estimated 4.8 million migrant workers and relies heavily on foreigners for jobs usually shunned by locals.
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The number of complaints made by Indian migrant workers against recruiters relating to jobs overseas tripled to more than 600 between 2016 and 2019, according to government data.
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As of June 2017, Singapore had about 290,23 migrant workers in the construction industry, from countries like Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and China, according to the Ministry of Manpower.
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About 47 percent of Xiang Hu Bao plan's 50 million participants are migrant workers and 31 percent are from rural areas and county-level regions, Ant Financial said.
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Such attitudes can condone discrimination, exploitation and violence against migrant workers, and influence policies on labor migration, according to the U.N. International Labour Organization (ILO) and U.N. Women.
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"Far from fair, equal or just" - that's how Lennon Ying-dah Wong, of local NGO Serve the People Association (SPA), describes the lot of migrant workers in Taiwan.
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It is impossible for migrant workers, daily wage laborers and others who work to keep the cities running to stay locked inside their houses and to stockpile food.
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It is impossible for migrant workers, daily wage laborers and others who work to keep the cities running to stay locked inside their houses and to stockpile food.
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There, she became fascinated by the city's population of migrant workers and took up photography—she's entirely self-taught—going on to work as a stringer for Reuters.
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First elected to the State Legislature in 1972, Ms. Katz advocated gun control and rights for women, gay people and migrant workers before those causes gained wider approval.
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These migrant workers from a poor Central American country worked 15-hour days, slept on the floor of the trimming shed, and lived off frozen burritos from Costco.
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A spokesperson for the Coalition for Migrant Workers Rights Alberta chapter told the Canadian Press that dozens are expected to reach out for help in the coming days.
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Hong Kong (CNN)China's millions of migrant workers are bearing the brunt of the country's ongoing economic slowdown as strikes and worker protests reach record levels, new statistics reveal.
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These rules are part of the gas-rich state's "kafala" sponsorship system, which rights groups say leave Qatar's mainly Asian migrant workers, numbering about 2 million, open to abuse.
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More than 12 million of the province's 30 million migrant workers were not able to make it home that year, and some ended up celebrating the holiday with colleagues.
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"For more than a week, migrant workers have been leaving the state in jam-packed trains and vans everyday," said Shyam Singh Thakur, who heads an association representing migrants.
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WorldFirst is a player in the competitive remittance market, in which migrant workers send money home to family, who can make transfers online or in person at WorldFirst outlets.
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Other surveys have shown Brexit to be a major drag on the property market in the capital, which is sensitive to flows of migrant workers from the European Union.
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The flood of migrant workers to Saudi Arabia after the oil boom of 1973 enabled them to enter the lucrative money-transfer business from workers back to their countries.
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"It impacts us on so many different levels, as you can imagine," he said, from migrant workers and their families to farmers to the shelf price a consumer pays.
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"The black print shows what happened in the 2013 election," explains Rizo, referring to accusations that the government distributed fake IDs to migrant workers in exchange for their votes.
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Undocumented migrant workers may become more vulnerable to human rights abuses as tougher U.S. immigration policies may push them under the radar, warns the Human Rights Outlook 2017 report.
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The new pact would also require Mexico to pass a law extending labor protections to migrant workers, many of whom come from Central America and are vulnerable to exploitation.
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The case has sparked a wider conversation about migrant workers, which Reddy said he hopes will result in shorter wait times for the families of those who die overseas.
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The United Nation's International Labour Organization (ILO) said it was deferring until November a decision on whether to investigate the Gulf state for forced labor violations involving migrant workers.
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In Guangdong Province, activists like Meng Han of the Panyu Migrant Workers Center, a now dissolved grass-roots group that helped local workers with collective bargaining, have been jailed.
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Most migrant workers leave their kids at home because a rigid household registration system -- called hukou -- means the children are often denied education and health care in the cities.
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Rights groups have blamed the system for abuse of migrant workers and say it leaves them vulnerable to exploitation by denying them the ability to travel or change jobs.
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In fact, we are required to advertise and offer jobs to local residents before we can qualify to hire temporary migrant workers under the Labor Department's H-85033A program.
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And many struggling families could be hit if Trump blocks remittances from migrant workers there, which totaled $27 billion last year to Mexico alone, according to bank BBVA Bancomer.
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It is feeling the instability next door in Libya: migrant workers have lost their jobs there, while the all-important tourism industry has been ruined by repeated terrorist attacks.
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Idaho drivers have reportedly been harassing busloads of young kids, prompting a local nonprofit to remove signs from the buses that identify the riders as children of migrant workers.
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Hong Kong provides some of the best legal protections for migrant workers in Asia, Mr. Lee added, and accusations of exploitation were frequently exaggerated by the international news media.
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At the same time, they're struggling to recruit migrant workers, especially those from Mexico, where factory work is an increasingly attractive option compared to back-breaking labor in fields.
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Ukraine, which is not in the EU, has been a favored source of migrant workers for the Czech Republic due to its geographical proximity and cultural and linguistic links.
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ALMATY (Reuters) - A bus fire in northwestern Kazakhstan killed 52 Uzbek citizens on a route used by migrant workers heading to Russia, the Kazakh Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
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A history textbook caused controversy in 2015 when a black mother noted that her son was being taught from a book that referred to African slaves as migrant workers.
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The National Guestworker Alliance, a group representing temporary workers in the US, says that the exploitative conditions that shackle migrant workers in America are the equivalent of forced labor.
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There are almost 3 billion passenger trips per year, rising by about 4 percent each year, with vast swaths of those passengers being migrant workers returning to their hometowns.
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Of around ten million people living in the city, three to four million are migrant workers servicing the region's 60,000-odd factories making everything from Nike shoes to iPhones.
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In the end, migrant workers simply splashed paint on buildings, many of them architectural monuments, to obscure their battered state, said Anna A. Davydova, a local urban preservation activist.
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This week the Indian government pledged $22 billion to support to migrant workers trapped without work far away from their homes, including the providing community kitchens and food deliveries.
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On a recent Sunday afternoon, the park was crowded with art lovers, families, migrant workers on their day off and even newlyweds, all taking selfies with the new installations.
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Reports of human rights abuses, exploitation and marginalization of migrant workers have emerged globally, from Hong Kong to Kuwait, and international human rights groups have detailed wide-scale abuses.
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They were headed back from fields that, for a few weeks in the summer, produce millions of tons of tomatoes and a bare livelihood for thousands of migrant workers.
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Thailand has three million migrant workers on its books but the United Nations' migration agency (IOM) estimates there are at least two million more working illegally across the country.
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Since the shutdown began on Wednesday night, homeless shelters have filled with migrant workers and labourers who have lost their livelihoods and so cannot afford food or a bed.
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In addition to the growing risks of imported infections, China's anti-virus efforts also face the challenge of trying to get migrant workers back to work by early April.
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More than 400 million Chinese people are expected to make 3 billion trips over the new year beginning on January 24, mostly migrant workers returning to their home towns.
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Thailand has about three million migrant workers on its books but the U.N. migration agency (IOM) estimates there are at least two million more working illegally across the country.
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Earlier in America's history, seasonal migrant workers, both American and largely Mexican, crossed the borders frequently to work the harvest seasons, and then returned to their homes in Mexico.
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The city of Los Angeles unveiled a nearly 85033-foot-tall statue in its downtown area over the weekend as an ode to Mexican migrant workers known as braceros.
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Nakhon said this was the first time migrant workers had faced criminal defamation charges in Thailand, which could see them jailed for up to two years if found guilty.
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More than 400 million Chinese people are expected to make 3 billion trips over the new year beginning on January 24, mostly migrant workers returning to their home towns.
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HONG KONG — A British labor activist who accused a Thai fruit company of abusing migrant workers was cleared of a criminal defamation charge by Thailand's highest court on Thursday.
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Immigrant communities in the United States, particularly migrant workers, undocumented immigrants, and immigrant victims of crime, are among the most vulnerable to human trafficking and other forms of exploitation.
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Thailand has 13 million registered migrant workers on its books but the U.N. migration agency, IOM, estimates there are at least 2 million more working informally across the country.
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According to the Ministry for Manpower, 600 migrant workers sought a change of employer in the first six months of 2017, but only half found new jobs in Singapore.
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The group has called on the federal department for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (IRCC) to be more flexible with it comes to the migrant workers displaced by the fires.
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And, as Reuters and BBC mention in their reports on the incident, many migrant workers bring their yearly earnings back to their family when they return home on the holiday.
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That vote is the subject of a criminal investigation by Swiss authorities, while Qatar's preparations have also been marred by allegations of abuse of migrant workers in the construction industry.
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The job cuts do not augur well for Kunshan, which had a population of more than 2.5 million at the end of 2014, two-thirds of whom were migrant workers.
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That vote is the subject of a criminal investigation by Swiss authorities while Qatar's preparations have also been marred by allegations of abuse of migrant workers in the construction industry.
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Besides, a government that threatens to shut its refugee camps or uproot millions of migrant workers from their homes might be able to extort some money out of Western donors.
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A lot of ride-hailing drivers don't have an urban hukou as they are migrant workers from rural parts of China, so they immediately become ineligible for ride-hailing apps.
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Cullman was founded as a German colony after the civil war and remains 96% white, according to the Census Bureau, though there are some migrant workers in nearby poultry plants.
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Qatar's labour market is made up of around 90 per cent migrant workers, so it could be argued that the national team simply reflects Qatari society's reliance on foreign labour.
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Real annual wages in agriculture, which is particularly vulnerable to any decline in migrant workers, increased by over 113% in the three months to October, more than any other industry.
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All over, they allow people who may never travel abroad to make new friends around the world—and people who are travelling, often as migrant workers, to stay in touch.
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Jordan is also hoping to free up jobs at home with a $140m scheme to reduce the number of migrant workers by up to 25% over the next five years.
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On the other are GOP moderates, often representing districts with many constituents who are Hispanic, moderate suburbanites or are tied to the agriculture industry, which relies heavily on migrant workers.
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Migrant workers in the Middle East have borne the brunt of a dramatic fall in global oil prices since mid-2014, with many laid-off and stranded away from home.
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Police are typically seen as unhelpful, more associated with stopping migrant workers for document checks or fining residents for crossing the street in the wrong place or drinking beer outdoors.
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One reason is that, like lots of older rural voters, farmers are Eurosceptic and fretful about sovereignty and immigration (though, ironically, many rely on seasonal migrant workers at harvest time).
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"When students from Beijing get into top universities and our students fail to do so, some become migrant workers," said an open letter circulated by parents in Henan last month.
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"The GLAA protects legitimate businesses and migrant workers in a way police just don't have the skillset or background to do," said the National Police Chiefs' Council anti-slavery lead.
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But the treatment of that army of migrant workers has been the simmering back story of the 26 World Cup ever since FIFA awarded Qatar the hosting rights in 2010.
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China's bigger cities have fared better than its small towns when it comes to attracting talent and migrant workers because they offer more opportunities and a better quality of life.
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Migrant workers get few protections such as a minimum wage and overtime pay, and contend with unsafe working and living conditions, the U.N. said in a report earlier this year.
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Indonesia and Cambodia, key sources of migrant workers to Malaysia, have in the past temporarily banned their citizens from going to work in Malaysia as maids after cases of abuse.
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Opponents judge the effects of visa programs for migrant workers by comparing them with an alternative reality with no migration, rather than by comparing them with large-scale unlawful migration.
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The legislation published on Wednesday follows years of global scrutiny over abuse of Thai and migrant workers and mandates basic rights such as social security, medical care and rest periods.
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And authorities in Hubei province, where the virus first broke out, said Tuesday that healthy migrant workers can be taken back to their places of work beginning later this week.
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Officials are now scrambling to find millions of migrant workers who had already returned to small towns and villages across the country, in order to quarantine them for 14 days.
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While it was difficult at times to get access from employees, the migrant workers welcomed Xyza like a sister who understood them and with whom they could share intimate stories.
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What these migrant workers cannot abide is how frequently their employer, a local construction company, pays them late, delaying the money they send home and forcing their families to borrow.
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Officials in the Philippines said on Tuesday that they would allow Filipino migrant workers to return to Hong Kong and Macau, reversing an earlier ban on travel to those regions.
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"This is because of a halt in demand from migrant workers, who traditionally return to their hometowns during Spring Festival, and typically use the period to buy property," it said.
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Two Indonesian women who had been migrant workers were foiled last December as they were preparing suicide bombings at the presidential palace in Jakarta and a tourist site in Bali.
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Malaysia struck a deal with Nepal in 2018 to ensure Nepali migrant workers would not pay any fees - after Nepal temporarily suspended sending workers due to concerns about their treatment.
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According to local news reports, the boy was, like the children of many migrant workers, "left behind" in his hometown at a young age and raised mostly by his grandparents.
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The average wage among the tens of thousands of migrant workers working in construction, for instance, can be as low as $1,920 a year, or less than $6 a day.
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There's a huge amount of work female migrant workers do that allows the economy to run, and without women doing this work, we'd see profits drop, we'd see things stalling.
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Migrant workers need to send money they earn home to their families, but get hit with fine print fees so less cash comes out the other side than they might assume.
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Last month, the emir issued a new law partially scrapping the exit permits that allowed employers to keep migrant workers – of which Qatar has some 1.9 million – from leaving the country.
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It could be used to offer low or no-fee payments between friends or remittance of earnings to familys from migrant workers abroad who are often gouged by money transfer services.
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Affluent Singapore, likewise, is a hub for sex trafficking and forced labor, facilitated by visa laws that make migrant workers vulnerable to exploitation by their employers and recruitment agencies, it said.
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Earlier this year, the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights said that Thai businesses must act to prevent rights violations, and the government must better protect migrant workers.
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AS PART of the Trump administration's broad crackdown on immigration, it has ramped up challenges to applications for the H-1B visas used to authorise entry for high-skilled migrant workers.
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Particularly poignant for me are Dorothea Lange's portraits of migrant workers in the 1930s that show just how vital immigrant labor was in reestablishing American prosperity during the Great Depression. —G.
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These towns, which may have begun as optimistic centers of commerce, with banks and mercantile stores, have faded into isolated, dusty settlements, some barely more than labor camps for migrant workers.
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China's foreign ministry alleges that people in nine mainland Chinese provinces — including "elderly people, teachers, students, migrant workers, [and] laid-off workers" — were targeted and that some victims even killed themselves.
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Brexit is raising hopes about a reverse 'brain drain' as migrant workers head out of the U.K., but experts say Britain's losses might not mean gains for central and eastern Europe.
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Senior leaders have said China will step up efforts to tackle property inventories this year, including helping migrant workers buy or rent homes in cities, and encouraging developers to cut prices.
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She watched her mother give the those in need, often migrant workers, free food and shelter (her father, who she was close with, went on to become a New Mexico politician).
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May apologized on Monday for saying that European Union migrant workers coming to Britain would no longer be able to "jump the queue" after Brexit.
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The prevalence of nonprescription antibiotic use varied from 1% (clinic patients) to 66% (Latino migrant workers), while the intention to use nonprescription antibiotics was 25% in the only study that asked.
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"In many cases, the body lies in the morgue for days as the employer doesn't come to claim it," said Anuradha Vobbiliselty, an advocate who works with migrant workers in Dubai.
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The wealthy state's kafala work sponsorship system - under which migrant workers cannot change jobs or leave the country without their employer's permission - lies at the heart of allegations of forced labor.
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KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nepal must punish recruitment agencies that charge migrant workers illegally high fees to find jobs abroad, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation, the United Nations said on Monday.
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The "hacktivist" collective Anonymous has brought down several websites affiliated with the Thai police, in protest over the controversial conviction of two Burmese migrant workers on charges of murder and rape.
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"It is incredibly clear cut - there is no UK asparagus on your supermarket shelves without seasonal migrant workers," Chinn, whose great grandfather started as a tenant farmer in 1925, told Reuters.
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While the nature and date of Britain's departure is up in the air, charities and activists say that the interior ministry and anti-slavery agency may struggle to protect migrant workers.
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Several female migrant workers interviewed by Mirror said that they work for 16 hours as waitresses, then are taken across town in a van at double capacity to work cleaning jobs.
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But researchers at Belgium's Leuven University say the use of posted workers is helping to reduce the gap, since migrant workers make more abroad than they would have done at home.
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But that hasn't been enough to ease concerns in Canada, Greenland and elsewhere, not least over rising numbers of Chinese migrant workers moving to the region for mining and other ventures.
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Wenzhou, a bustling coastal city in Zhejiang Province, is a major manufacturing hub for goods like shoes and purses, and its factories attract thousands of migrant workers from across the country.
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There are an estimated 150 million migrant workers around the world, according to the International Labour Organization, which puts the number of people trapped in forced labour at around 21 million.
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Meanwhile, India's foreign ministry started tracking migrant workers in the Gulf, encouraging them to use helplines to report abuse and signing memorandums of understanding with Gulf countries to ensure safe migration.
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NONGSA, Indonesia — A speedboat carrying 101 people, mostly migrant workers, struck a reef and sank off an Indonesian island on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people, the country's disaster agency said.
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Unknown hackers have crippled multiple Thai police websites to protest the trial of two Myanmar migrant workers who were sentenced to death last month for murdering a pair of British tourists.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese court held an outdoor trial for eight migrant workers protesting against unpaid wages to "educate the public in law", the state-run Beijing News reported on Friday.
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In Lombok, which sends one of the highest numbers of Indonesians overseas as migrant workers, some parents feel their daughters can be better looked after in their absence if they marry.
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Countries had a "moral imperative" to help exiles, asylum seekers, migrant workers, victims of human trafficking and even migrants in "irregular situations," he added in an apparent reference to undocumented immigrants.
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He said local governments in some regions had been asked to lower the threshold for the public housing system, giving migrant workers access, Xinhua reported, with most regions heeding the call.
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Just as the flashy museums and universities of the United Arab Emirates are built on the backs of abused migrant workers, the Plaza's luxury was underpinned by many decades of exploitation.
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In March 1938, shortly before he began working on The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck wrote to his agent Elizabeth Otis to turn down a commission to write about migrant workers.
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Li Zehua, a former host on China Central Television, the state broadcast agency, traveled to Wuhan to cover the outbreak as a citizen journalist, interviewing stranded migrant workers and crematory workers.
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Sudan exports many of the goats that are slaughtered in Saudi Arabia to observe the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, and millions of Sudanese are migrant workers in that country.
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For many migrant workers living in China's cities, the Spring Festival travel period, called chunyun, is one the few opportunities to visit the families they left behind in more rural provinces.
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Rail travel, the lifeline of India, has already been suspended after thousands of people, mostly migrant workers, swarmed train stations to go home as businesses shut down and jobs dried up.
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China's central government on Wednesday said migrant workers outside Beijing and the Hubei province, where the virus originated, no longer needed to go through quarantine procedures if they met certain criteria.
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Many migrant workers will have traveled home for the festival, potentially leaving them trapped in their provinces and unable to return to the east coast, where most major manufacturing areas are.
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