Research Proposal: Managing Expatriate Workers in Bangladesh : prospects and challenges Supervisor: Dr. Ferdous Arfina Osman Professor Department of Public Administration University of Dhaka Submitted by: Muktadir Aziz Roll number: GPP-18 6th
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Maids to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers by Nicole Constable Nicole Constable‚ in Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers describes the physical and psychological lives of those domestic workers in the homes of Chinese in Hong Kong‚ their attitude towards their own lives and work‚ and the attitudes of the workers and the Chinese toward one another. Constable’s primary purpose‚ from a scholarly perspective‚ is to document the particulars of the lives of these
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labor strikes of the 1930’s was incredibly valuable to the migrant workers. They provided technology‚ leadership and foresight necessary to make changes that the migrant workers desperately needed. These changes included not only physical changes to the environment in which they worked‚ slept and rate of pay‚ but also the mind set in which the growers and owner thought about the workers. The biggest plight against the farm workers was that they were taken advantage of from all angles. They
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A Malaysian Fantasy: Less dependence on foreign workers Written by Dr. Lim Teck GheeTuesday‚ 04 August 2009 12:14 CPI Writings Commentary by Dr Lim Teck Ghee There is hardly a day that passes when we do not read something about foreign labour in the newspapers. The story could be about a heartless employer pouring boiling water on an Indonesian maid or labour contractors exploiting a Bangladeshi worker. Or it could be a Minister stating that he received an appeal from the MNCs for the
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decrease over the years‚ hence‚ the stronger and younger transient workers would be able to replace the aging population of Singapore and help to sustain Singapore’s development through their different jobs‚ like the building of infrastructures in Singapore. In addition‚ because there is a low birth rate‚ but there are not enough young people to replace the old and weak citizens‚ and hence the physical help of the transient workers is very much appreciated by Singapore. Singapore is educationally
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POLISH WORKERS IN THE NETHERLANDS A NEW WAVE OF PERMANENT LABOUR MIGRATION? Inclusion and exclusion in contemporary European Societies Challenges for a New Europe: In between local freeze and global dynamics Edition April 14-18 2008‚ Dubrovnik‚ Croatia S.T.M. van den Bogaard s.t.m.vandenbogaard@students.uu.nl Polish workers in The Netherlands: a new wave of permanent labour migration? Content 1. 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2. 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3. 3.1 3.2 4. 4.1 4.2 5. Introduction...............
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Do foreign workers benefit the host country? In many countries‚ foreign labor is an important part of the economy. Using migrant labor can contribute to the development of a country‚ but it can also cause economic problems. What are some of the advantages and drawbacks of expatriate labor for a country’s economy? The development of countries such as Singapore‚ Brunei‚ the Gulf countries‚ and even the US has been helped greatly by millions of foreign workers. While foreign workers are cheap and
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The government of Canada construction of migrant workers as persons who come to countries like Canada and pays them to do the “dirty work” that no Canadian citizen wants to do. Velasco (2013) points out that the Canadian government have constructed migrant workers to be cheap‚ docile and exportable labour and because of this constructed of migrant workers‚ many countries like Canada go for cheap labour. Velasco (2013) explains that the Canadian government have use their immigration policies to get
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know that our Malaysia government had decided to recruit more foreign workers from India which around 45‚000 people from India. This is to meet the demand by around 13 sectors which currently in shortage of workforce. So‚ this resulted in many people and The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) had strongly opposed the decisions made by government. The Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) is said as the most representative workers’ organization in Malaysia. Three main objectives emphasized by MTUC:
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controversy has surrounded the delicate subject known as the guest worker program. The question of whether the guest worker members‚ employed in the H-2A and H-2B programs‚ are treated fairly and receive fair pay is a one sided argument considering all the evidence and statements from mistreated workers. In some incidents workers were cheated out of their pay and worked in ill-suited environments. For instance‚ migrant workers in both the H-2A and H-2B programs were often already in debt by the
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