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Migrant Workers
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Central Asia’s Migrant Headache by Daria Anichkova
In the International Economic Bulletin, Daria Anichkova reports that Russia, one of the world’s main recipients of migrant labor, is a major destination country for migrant workers from Central Asia. Remittances…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Louisiana: New Laborers, New Laws by Robin Raasch
Louisiana: New Laborers, New Laws by Robin RaaschABSTRACT: Migrant labor, particularly Hispanic migrants in Louisiana, positively impact the fiscal health of the Louisiana economy. Small and large Louisiana business owners…
Food Safety News
Publisher’s Platform: Safe Employees = Safe Food
By Bill Marler
When the Associated Press reported this week that an owner of Jensen Farms was being fined by the U.S. Department of Labor for failing to provide safe migrant worker housing,…
Food Poison Journal
US Department of Labor fines Colorado cantaloupe farmer for substandard migrant worker housing
By Bill Marler
Investigation disclosed unsanitary conditions, overcrowding at Eric Jensen's Gateway Motel DENVER -- The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has fined cantaloupe grower Eric Jensen, who owns and…
International Law Prof Blog
Human Rights Day
Saturday December 10 is Human Rights Day. The day commemorates the adoption of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. Although adopted as a UN General Assembly Resolution and not…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Fudge on Migrants’ Human Rights
Judy Fudge (Victoria) just posted on SSRN her article The Precarious Migrant Status and Precarious Employment: The Paradox of International Rights for Migrant Workers. Here's the abstract:Many civil society organizations…
ImmigrationProf Blog
American food movement must speak out on immigration
Here is an interesting critical angle on the slew of state immigration laws being passed in legislatures across the United States. Gretchen Sierra-Zorita in "American food movement must speak out…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Anthropologist’s Five Books on Migrant Workers
Anthropologist Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz identifies five us about books that give voice to low-wage migrant workers and explains the mutual dependence of slums and “urban glamour zones”:The Mobility of Labor and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Dying to Work
Much menial labor in the United States today is performed by undocumented migrant workers—many of whom risk their lives in thousand-mile journeys simply to get to the United States. A…
The Right Coast
Saudi Arabian torment of migrant workers at mercy of abusive ‘madams’ | World news | The Observer
Every year, thousands of the maids run away from their employers in Saudi Arabia.Often physically or mentally scarred, they find themselves in a legal limbo. In Saudi Arabia, the consent…