guestworker


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Noun1.guestworker - a person with temporary permission to work in another country; "a Moroccan guestworker in Canada was accused of aiding terrorists"
guest worker
working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
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(2015), 'Making the case for temporary migrant worker programmes: evidence from the UK's rural guestworker ('SAWS') scheme', Journal of Rural Studies, 40, p.
IS EMPLOYER SPONSORSHIP A GOOD WAY TO MANAGE LABOUR MIGRATION? IMPLICATIONS FOR POST-BREXIT MIGRATION POLICIES
(2015) 'Temporary and transnational: gender and emotion in the lives of Mexican guestworker fathers', Ethnic and Racial Studies 38: 211-26.
Easy access: new dynamics in long-distance African intimacies
miserable living conditions); see also CLOSE TO SLAVERY: GUESTWORKER
COLLECTIVE STRUGGLES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF UNIONIZING TEMPORARY FOREIGN FARMWORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
If enacted, the Agricultural Guestworker Act (HR 4092) would likely accelerate the influx of farm guest workers, which could reduce support for the engineers and scientists developing machines to replace farmworkers.
The race in the fields: Imports, machines and migrants
This fall, Republican representative Bob Goodlatte of Virginia introduced the Agricultural Guestworker Act, or AG Act, which was voted out of the House Judiciary Committee in October.
New 'Bracero' Bill Could Cut Agriculture Workers' Rights And Wages
Renewing old imperial connections to the Caribbean, guestworker programs in the US were "a way to bring the periphery to the metropole, while sparing the latter from having to integrate the former." (32) Thus, as shown in California and Florida, the US empire was "a moving phenomenon" capable of adapting and grounding its colonial logics and functioning in its very heartland.
The Work of Empire: Current Directions in Transnational Labour History
farms has grown and shrunk as a result of immigration policies and guestworker programs (see Figure 1).
"We Like Mexican Laborers Better" citizenship and immigration policies in the formation of Puerto Rican farm labor in the United States
"Guestworker Regimes: A Taxonomy." The New Left Review (84): 84-102.
The Double Pincer of Migration: Revisiting the Migration and Development Nexus through a Spatial Lens/La doble tenaza de la migracion. Reconsideracion del nexo entre la migracion y el desarrollo a traves de un lente especial/"A dupla pinca" da migracao. Reconsideracao do nexo entre a migracao e o desenvolvimento atraves de uma lente espacial
Migrant workers in the federal guestworker program make up an
Relief for guestworkers: employer perjury as a qualifying crime for U Visa petitions
They demand not only an amnesty for the huddled masses "living in the shadows" but also expanded "guestworker" programs to satisfy the demand for unskilled labor that fostered illegal immigration in the first place, tens of thousands of additional visas for skilled STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) workers, and millions of additional visas for the foreign relatives of naturalized immigrants now stalled in decades-long waiting lists.
Immigration made right: the GOP is being stampeded into enacting the wrong reforms

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