Migrant Workers Labor Issues

Migrant Workers Labor Issues

Migrant Workers

The term "migrant worker"generally refers to a person who is to be engaged, is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national.

Top: Society: Issues: Labor: Migrant Workers

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- Examination of the experience of migrant workers in California (Mexicans and "Okies") during the first half of the twentieth century.
- Information on migrant workers in Lebanon.
- Report from the Trades Union Congress in Britain on issues surrounding migrant workers including the impact on labour in Britain. Introduction is free though the full report is accessible only by purchase.
- Information for migrant workers in Ireland.
- Network for the promotion and protection of the rights of migrant workers. In English, French and Spanish.
- Examination of the impact of migrant farm workers from the 1970s onward.
- Articles, fact sheets and other resources from the International Labor Organization.
- Summary and recommendations coming out of a conference held by the United Nations Association of the United Kingdom in 2002. Full report in PDF format available for download.
- Background information from the People's Movement for Human Rights Education.
- Resources from the International Labor Organization including a migrant workers database, standards of work, and goals for improving conditions.
- Text of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1990.
- Based in Oxnard, California. Its main purpose is to help hard working immigrants and their families obtain justice and fair treatment.
- Resources for migrant workers from the Mission for Filipino Migrant Workers Society in Hong Kong.
- A lack of legal protection for migrant workers who arrive in the UK is giving the green light to unscrupulous employers, the TUC says.
- Report in PDF format on the condition of foreign workers in Israel.
- Helps migrant and seasonal farmworkers in South Florida and the Glades with emergency assitance, immigration, substance abuse and mental health, literacy and employment. Partnerships with UMOS and MAFO, conference dates.
- Countries that consider themselves human rights champions are still reluctant to ratify the convention on protecting migrants' rights. Rosaura Audi argues the need for better communication between states, citizens and migrants.
- Activists based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada promoting the rights of seasonal Caribbean and Mexican migrant farm workers who annually participate in the federal government's Caribbean and Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (known as SAW).
- Radio Netherlands article by by Arjan Schippers examines the conditions faced by migrant workers in Europe.
- Monitoring, analysis and ways to get involved on issues affecting migrant and seasonal farmworkers, including labor and employment, occupational safety and health, farmworker women, immigration, and access to the justice system.
- Conditions of cleaners 'a step from slavery' lawyer alleges. Published in the Guardian.
- Background from a website on the works of John Steinbeck, author of the Grapes of Wrath.
- Archival information on Mexican migrant workers in Oregon in the 1940s.

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