50 Facts About Migrant workers

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Migrant workers worker is a person who migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work.

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Migrant workers usually do not have the intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work.

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All of these Migrant workers are exposed to face paces, and repetitive motions at work which can easily lead to injury.

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Industrial Migrant workers often have to use heavy machinery without proper training or safety protocols .

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5.

The Migrant workers are exposed to unsafe levels of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers, which can lead to respiratory illness, dermatitis, cancer, and reproductive problems.

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The lack of government regulation of employers that hire migrant workers means that the workers work long hours in adverse conditions for little pay.

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Additionally, they are at constant risk of sudden deportation, which leads to migrant workers accepting poor working conditions and unlivable wages from their employers.

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Migrant workers generally enter as work permit holders under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program or the International Mobility Program ; the key distinction between the programs being the requirement for Canadian employers to obtain a positive or neutral labour market impact assessment or an exemption from this process .

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The contributions that migrant workers make in Canada are diverse and significant as they work in a wide range of occupations - harvesting fruits and vegetables, caring for children and the elderly, driving long-haul transport trucks, as well as working in IT, academica and medicine.

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The program is run jointly with the governments of Mexico and the participating Caribbean states, which recruit the Migrant workers and appoint representatives in Canada to assist in the program's operations.

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11.

The classification of "low skill" means that Migrant workers require no more than high school or two years of job-specific training to qualify.

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Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute found that these migrant workers are often subject to harassment, violence, and discrimination during their journeys at their destinations and when they return home.

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Several cases of abuses upon Indonesian migrant workers have been reported, and some have gained worldwide attention.

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However, the arrival of migrant workers increased the country's output and reduced the wage rates in the local labor market.

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Observers such as the OCBC Bank economist Selena Ling say migrant workers are necessary given the ageing labour force and a low fertility rate.

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The entry of foreign domestic Migrant workers is controlled through strict enforcement of a "guestworker policy of transience".

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However, these Migrant workers were considered trainees and not official employees, so they could not receive protection under Korean labour laws.

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Thousands of foreign Migrant workers have entered the country from other Asian countries to work in Sri Lanka with 8000 coming from China and others coming from Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh and India.

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In Bangkok, Thailand many migrant workers attend Dear Burma school where they study subjects such as Thai language, Burmese language, English language, computer skills and photography.

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Many of these foreign Migrant workers were followed by their families in the following period and stayed forever.

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21.

Migrant workers can be denied National Health Service treatment unless they can afford to pay.

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22.

Untreated illnesses can worsen and migrant workers can die from treatable illnesses that remain untreated.

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23.

Since the 1970s, foreign Migrant workers have become a large percentage of the population in most nations in the Persian Gulf region.

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Domestic Migrant workers perform an array of work in the home: cleaning, cooking, child care, and elder care.

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Skilled Migrant workers pay more in taxes than what they receive in social spending from the state.

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Emigration of highly skilled Migrant workers has been linked to skill shortages, reductions in output, and tax shortfalls in many developing countries.

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Foreign Migrant workers migrate to the Middle East as contract Migrant workers by means of the kafala, or "sponsorship" system.

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In Saudi Arabia, foreign Migrant workers must have employment contracts written in Arabic and have them signed by both the sponsor and themselves in order to be issued a work permit.

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Foreign Migrant workers have become the primary and dominant labor force in most sectors of the economy and the government bureaucracy.

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30.

In 2005, low-paid Asian Migrant workers staged protests in some oGCC countries, including Bahrain and Kuwait, for not receiving salaries on time, and some of them were violent.

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In GCC countries, a chief concern with foreign domestic Migrant workers is childcare without the desired emphasis on Islamic and Arabic values.

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Migrant workers are excluded from the UAE's collective labour rights, hence migrants are vulnerable to forced labour.

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Human Rights Watch have drawn attention to the mistreatment of migrant workers who have been turned into debt-ridden de facto indentured servants following their arrival in the UAE.

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The migrant workers are said to have become a target of the financial shortages and piling debts, forcing many to go days without food.

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However, several migrant workers began to use the TikTok application highlighting the other side.

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Human rights activists said that migrant workers recruited through such informal channels are at a higher risk of trafficking and other forms of exploitation, even though the workers employed through licensed agency and proper documentation face difficult situations.

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The Migrant workers were cuffed during the first two weeks of their detention and besides being subjected to racial slurs and physical abuse, they were refused access to basic medical aid such as sanitary pads to women.

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Ngang Rene, one of the many Cameroonian migrant workers arrested and deported, warned Emirati authorities about the dangerous conditions in the North West region.

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On 4 August 2020, The Guardian revealed abhorrent condition of migrant workers held in Saudi Arabia's detention centers, which were terribly overcrowded with insanitary conditions and lack of adequate healthcare.

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40.

In China, as of 2015 a third of their migrant workers were women who had moved from rural towns to bigger cities in search of employment.

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The female foreign domestic Migrant workers are always gender-stereotyped as maids and generalized as low wages Migrant workers in society.

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Also, these women migrant workers are often considered an asset to employers who think of these individuals as docile, compliant, and disposable.

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43.

Migrant workers children are at a disadvantage because the majority live in extreme poverty and must work with their parents to support their families.

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Migrant workers workforce has historically played a vital role nationally and across local communities in recent times.

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45.

Some unskilled Migrant workers living in slums suffer from unemployment and make a living in the informal sector.

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46.

Recruitment of international Migrant workers through employment agencies is a common phenomenon in developed countries, such as the United States or the UAE.

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47.

Some migrant workers flee from their abusive employers and seek help at the embassy or consulate of their home country, but that is difficult to achieve in remote locations.

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Migrant workers had to report to the government about these women and that they were in fact working in the country so that he could continue to receive funds while they continued to work.

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Migrant workers often have poorer health and shorter life expectancy relative to the general population average.

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50.

Studies show that migrant workers are at higher risk of work injuries than non-immigrant workers.

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