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The Nation
April 26, 2018
A man was arrested in Bangkok on Wednesday for allegedly producing pink identification cards for illegal migrant workers ... said the shop's front business was making inkjet signs, stickers and labels, but it had for years allegedly catered to illegal migrant workers from Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.
ThisWeek Community News
April 26, 2018
Why are politicians held in such low esteem by many Americans? Because too often their true intentions are masked to win favor with one constituency while seeming to favor another. Look at how Congress and the White House are mishandling the H-2B immigration program for migrant workers.
NewsClick
April 26, 2018
The migrant workers, who land up in Kerala also face relatively less prejudice, hostility and discrimination than they would elsewhere in India. In spite of the best efforts of the BJP and the RSS – ably aided by the likes of Prime Minister, BJP chief Amit Shah and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath – there isÃâà...
Middlebury Campus
April 26, 2018
In the late 1980s and into the 1990s, dairying in New England was in crisis. Small farms were faced with a lack of demand for agricultural labor, according to Vermont Representative Peter Conlon, 53. Conlon, who was born and raised in Vermont, worked as a dairy labor specialist for ten years withÃâà...
Eleven Myanmar
April 25, 2018
More than 300 Myanmar migrant workers working at a factory which produces shrimps in Maha Chai, Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, stopped their work on April 24 and staged a protest to demand a month's salary. Workers claim they didn't receive their wages for over a month and they had made aÃâà...
Global Sisters Report (blog)
April 25, 2018
The private homes in Amman's richest neighborhoods have sweeping views of the city's rolling hills and private courtyards filled with lemon trees and bougainvillea flowers. But behind the high walls of the city's richest homes are thousands of migrant workers, many of whom are live-in domestic help andÃâà...
Karen News
April 25, 2018
Burmese migrant workers and labor rights activists have urged both Burma and Thai governments to assist migrant workers who are having difficulties in buying bus tickets to return back to Thailand after the Thingyan Festival. Many Burmese migrant workers are currently spending the night nearÃâà...
Georgetown University The Hoya
April 25, 2018
So wrote Ian Almond — a world literature professor at Georgetown University's campus in Doha, Qatar, who is currently on leave — in a November 2017 letter sent to Provost Robert Groves concerning the treatment of migrant workers at the Qatari campus. Almond published the letter on his Facebook pageÃâà...
Miami Herald
April 25, 2018
Why are politicians held in such low esteem by many Americans? Because too often their true intentions are masked to win favor with one constituency while seeming to favor another. Look at how Congress and the White House are mishandling the H-2B immigration program for migrant workers.
Valley News
April 24, 2018
“They got profiled,” said the farmer, who asserted that they check migrant workers' paperwork at their farm. “I was just up there today and nobody approached me. What a shame.” The arrested dairy farm workers had no connection to each other, and went to Walmart individually to do some shopping, theÃâà...
