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Isolation and Interaction in Temporary Agricultural Labor
This article examines how isolation and the seasonality of employment both constrain and enable agricultural guest workers’ contact with outsiders....
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Temporary Employment of First-Generation Migrants in the Netherlands
The Netherlands is the European country that has undergone the highest increase in temporary jobs in the last decade. These occupations are...
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A European Unemployment Benefit to Protect Atypical Workers?
This paper evaluates the potential of a common unemployment insurance scheme for the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU-UI) to improve income...
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Introduction: A New Age of Temporary Migration?
Managed labour migration schemes have existed for more than a century. ‘Guestworkers’ draw their name from post-war migration from Turkey to Germany....
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Temporary Agency Work: A Study of Restaurant Work in Finland
Ever expanding use of temporary agency work (TAW) easily attracts irresponsible actors on the business field in the hopes of making big profits and...
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Temporary Labor Migration: C. Foulkes
Temporary migration is migration to a country that is not intended to be permanent, for a specified and limited period of time, and usually...
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Youth as Temporary Workers Abroad: The Experiences of Australia, Canada and New Zealand
As globalization reshapes labour markets, young people increasingly look abroad for opportunities to pursue work and training, develop their careers...
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Negotiating Leisure Constraints in the Pandemic: The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
How did migrant domestic workers accomplish serious leisure during the pandemic (Stebbins RA (1982) Serious leisure: A conceptual statement. Pac...
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Visible Waste, Invisible Workers: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Securing Healthcare Sanitation Workers’ Rights in India
In India, the implementation of the Bio-medical Waste Management Rules (
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Covid-19 and female sex workers in India: a journey of brutal reality
The present paper is focused on the devastating effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on female sex workers (FSWs) in India and the globe. In Indian...
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Factors contributing to occupational injuries among workers in the construction, manufacturing, and mining industries in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Personal injuries, illnesses, or deaths resulting from occupational accidents pose critical public health issues with severe social and economic...
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Afterword: Temporary Measures
The disruptions that wracked food supply chains amid the COVID-19 pandemic were not exceptional circumstances so much as they were events that...
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Life experiences and cultural adaptation among migrant workers in Malaysia
This study examines the state of migrants’ cultural adaptation in Malaysia, and how such an adaptation can help build our understanding of migrants’...
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Temporary Migration and Policy Challenges in the Western Balkan Countries—Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia Perspectives
Globalization has affected a rise in temporary labour and educational migration around the world. In this chapter, authors focus on the analysis of...
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Multi-period Analysis and Household Registration Differences of Multidimensional Poverty Among Migrant Workers
This paper aims to explore the multidimensional poverty of the migrant workers. This paper also analyzed the migrant worker's household registration...
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Overeducation and Social Integration Among Highly Educated Migrant Workers in China
In recent years, Chinese people are increasingly experiencing overeducation in the labor market due to China's expansion of higher education. Migrant...
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Unfair and Unjust: Temporary Labour Migration Programmes in and from Asia and the Pacific as Barriers to Migrant Justice
Temporary labour migration programmes (TLMPs) are the most available option for regular migration available to low-wage migrant workers from Asia and...
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Migrant Optimism in Educational Aspirations for Children in Big Cities in China: A Case Study of Native, Permanent Migrant and Temporary Migrant Parents in Shanghai
There is a socioeconomic hierarchy by people’s migration and hukou status in urban migration destinations in China. Children’s education determines...
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Living Better but Separated: The Emotional Impacts of the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme on Transmigrant Workers
Linamar Campos-Flores and Adriana Leona Rosales-Mendoza investigate the exploitative conditions of the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers...