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Wandering workers : mores, behavior, way of life, and political status of domestic Russian labor migrants
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ISBN: 3838267133 9783838267135 9783838207131 3838207130 9783838206530 3838206533 Year: 2015 Publisher: Stuttgart, Germany : Ibidem-Verlag,

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Mill girls and strangers : single women's independent migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881
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ISBN: 0791455254 0791487822 0585491380 9780585491387 0791455262 9780791455265 9780791455258 9780791487822 Year: 2002 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract them. Using individual accounts, this innovative and comparative study examines the migrants' lives by addressing their reasons for migration, their relationship to their families, the roles they played in the cities to which they moved, and the dangers they met as a result of their youth, gender, and separation from family. Gordon details both the similarities and differences in the women's migration experiences, and somewhat surprisingly concludes that they became financially independent, rather than primarily contributors to a family economy.


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Migration and human rights : the United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights
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ISBN: 9780521136112 9780521199469 9789231040900 9231040901 0521199468 0521136113 9780511811272 0511850956 1107188741 9786612653179 0511689454 0511690932 0511690193 0511811276 0511688709 1282653172 0511692056 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights is the most comprehensive international treaty in the field of migration and human rights. Adopted in 1990 and entered into force in 2003, it sets a standard in terms of access to human rights for migrants. However, it suffers from a marked indifference: only forty states have ratified it and no major immigration country has done so. This highlights how migrants remain forgotten in terms of access to rights. Even though their labour is essential in the world economy, the non-economic aspect of migration - and especially migrants' rights - remain a neglected dimension of globalisation. This volume provides in-depth information on the Convention and on the reasons behind states' reluctance towards its ratification. It brings together researchers, international civil servants and NGO members and relies upon an interdisciplinary perspective that includes not only law, but also sociology and political science.

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Human rights --- International private law --- United Nations --- Human Rights --- Foreign workers --- Legal status, laws, etc --- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families --- Human rights. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation --- Convention internationale sur la protection des droits de tous les travailleurs migrants et de leur famille --- Convention internationale sur la protection des droits de tous les travailleurs migrants et des membres de leur famille --- Convention on Migrant Workers --- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families --- Konvensi Internasional Tentang Perlindungan Hak Semua Buruh Migran dan Anggota Keluarganya --- Migrant Workers Convention --- New International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families --- UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families --- United Nations Convention on Migrants' Rights --- United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families --- United Nations Migrant Worker Rights Convention --- Convención Internacional sobre la Protección de los Derechos de todos los Trabajadores Migratorios y sus familias --- Konvensi Internasional Tentang Perlindungan Hak-Hak Semua Pekerja Migran dan Anggota Keluarganya --- Law --- General and Others --- Foreign workers - Legal status, laws, etc


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Das "Gastarbeiter"-System : Arbeitsmigration und ihre Folgen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Westeuropa
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ISBN: 3486714198 3486709461 Year: 2012 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und andere westeuropäische Industriestaaten warben von den 1950er bis zu den frühen 1970er Jahren Millionen ausländische Arbeitskräfte an, um ihre nationalen Arbeitsmärkte in Zeiten der Hochkonjunktur zu ergänzen. Zahlreiche bilaterale Anwerbeabkommen boten den Rahmen. Bis heute werden die Folgen des "Gastarbeiter"-Systems unter dem Stichwort "Integration" kontrovers diskutiert. Das Sammelwerk bietet aktuelle Ergebnisse der Historischen Migrationsforschung. Dabei werden die Bedingungen und Formen der Anwerbung und deren Auswirkungen für Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik ebenso untersucht wie Aspekte der Integration auf kommunaler und nationaler Ebene. Diese übergreifende Perspektive ermöglicht neue Einblicke in die Geschichte der Arbeitsmigration.


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Migration from Malawi to South Africa : a historical and cultural novel
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ISBN: 9956764345 9789956764341 9789956763955 9956763950 Year: 2018 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, Project MUSE,

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Since the discovery and exploitation of minerals like gold, diamond and copper in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Malawi has played the role of a labour supplier. Malawians were attracted by the relatively higher wages obtaining in the South African mines up to the period of the decline in mine migrancy at the end of the 1980s. Following this decline, a cross-section of Malawians continued to emigrate to South Africa to seek various jobs in the burgeoning informal sector and also for trade purposes. Migration from Malawi to South Africa sheds light on the problems that labour migrants and traders encounter as they are 'toing' and 'froing' between Malawi and South Africa in pursuit of their respective goals. It shows that migration, which initially was exclusively done for wage employment, is becoming more complex by the day. This is a result of the infusion of elements of commercial migration, smuggling and human trafficking. The book advances the argument that the numbers of migrants to South Africa increased in the post-1994 period partly as a result of mal-administration by the successive democratically-elected governments in Malawi. This development weakened Malawi's otherwise promising economy and impoverished the rural masses. The book 'sees' forlorn hope in the future of labour migrants and traders, unless the Malawi Government starts to genuinely have the welfare of the populace at heart! The book is relevant and accessible to policy-makers, university and college students interested in migration studies, general readers and migrants, themselves


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Expats in Germany - Inbound and Outbound
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ISBN: 3110404044 311040401X 9783110404012 9783110404043 9783110404029 3110404028 3110403838 9783110403831 3110403838 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Die zunehmende Internationalisierung des Geschäftsverkehrs führt zu einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher, grenzübergreifender Leistungs- und Austauschbeziehungen im täglichen Geschäft. Teilnehmer und Nutznießer dieser Internationalisierung sind nicht nur große Konzerne, sondern auch kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen, für die sich auf den internationalen Märkten erhebliche Chancen bieten. Mit der wachsenden Internationalisierung geht die Zunahme internationaler Mitarbeitereinsätze einher. In der betrieblichen Praxis wächst daher die Anzahl von Fragen ausländischer Firmen, Firmeninhaber, Personal-, Steuer- und Rechtsleiter, Investoren und ausländischer Arbeitnehmern etc. Um sicher zu gehen, dass der Entsendeprozess von Mitarbeitern sowohl nach Deutschland als auch das Empfangen aus Deutschland reibungslos und effizient verläuft, beantwortet das Werk dem ausländischen Anwender (Firma oder Arbeitnehmer) die am häufigsten gestellten Fragen. Der Fokus des Werks liegt auf der Beantwortung jener Fragestellungen, die sich bei der täglichen Personalarbeit stellen. Es ist ein Nachschlagewerk mit dem Blickwinkel des ausländischen Rechtsanwenders. The increasing internationalization of business leads to a cornucopia of differing cross-border exchanges in one's daily work. Participants and other beneficiaries of this internationalization include not only multi-national companies but also SMEs (small and mid-sized enterprises), for which the increased global market access offers substantial opportunities. With the growth of internationalization, too, comes an increase in employee assignments. In business practice, the number of questions from foreign companies, management, HR, tax and legal professionals, investors and non German employees etc., ist growing. In order to be certain that sending employees to or from Germany on work assignments can take place as smoothly and efficiently as possible, relevant questions asked by companies and workers need to be taken into consideration. This text does just that with a focus on answering common expat-relevant questions posed by professionals. It is a reference work for those foreigners subject to and applying German law.


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Follow the maid : domestic worker migration in and from Indonesia
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ISBN: 9788776946425 8776946428 9788776942267 8776942260 9788776942274 8776942279 Year: 2017 Publisher: NIAS Press


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Shining new light on the UN Migrant Workers Convention
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press (PULP)

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The UN Migrant Workers Convention is the most comprehensive international treaty in the field of migration and human rights. Adopted in 1990 and in force since 2003, it establishes the minimum standards of human rights protection to which migrant workers and members of their families are entitled. However, it is the least well known of the core international human rights instruments and has so far been ratified by only 51 states. This volume shines new light on obstacles and opportunities facing the Convention, its added value in international human rights law and its application in selected state parties. It combines the expertise of academics and practitioners, with the contributions of the latter informed by work on policy and advocacy in NGOs, international organisations and specialised agencies.


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Guest worker programs : select analyses from around the globe
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ISBN: 1629487570 9781629487571 9781629487564 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers,


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Labour migration structures and financing in Asia
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ISBN: 9789221306023 922130602X 9221306011 9789221306016 9789221306016 Year: 2016 Publisher: Geneva, [Switzerland] : International Labour Organization,

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This study adopts a comparative perspective and provides a detailed analysis of the core issues in relation to India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka, three major labour-sending counties. The conceptual framework of the study presumes that migration management in countries of origin consists of three domains: regulation and (in certain countries) promotion of labour migration and support services; administrative structures; and financing.

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