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Title: Migrant workers


1
Migrant workers
  • Seminarfach EN72
  • Marina Zielke Mi Tran

2
Structure
  • Migrant worker
  • Definition
  • National perspectives (Europe, Asia, America)
  • Views on migrant workers
  • Migrant workers in Asia
  • Reasons for migration
  • Treatment
  • Case study Olympic Games 2008
  • Political management
  • Migrant workers in America
  • American view on Asian migrant workers
  • Conclusion
  • Sources

3
Definition
  • different official meanings and connotations
  • someone who migrates within a country in search
    of work
  • different national views on the term migrant
    workers

4
National Perspectives
  • Europe open borders for European migrant workers
    allow them to work in other EU countries
  • America reference to someone who regularly works
    away from home
  • doing manual labour for low wages e.g. field
    workers
  • immigrants without a valid work visa
  • seasonal workers
  • Asia China workers from poor regions who work
    in industrialized areas and sent their pay back
    home to their families

5
Views on migrant workers
  • conservative politicians (industrial countries)
    legal migrant who is a lawbreaker ? one-way
    ticket home
  • immigration advocates fundament of globalized
    economy
  • politicial leaders of developing countries
    heroes because of financial supporting of their
    families back home

6
Migrant workers in Asia reasons for migration
  • globalization
  • environmental disaster
  • unemployment
  • living conditions
  • war after-effects
  • religious or political persecution

7
Treatment of migrant workers
  •   "If my employers went out, they locked the
    door from the outside and took the key."
  • bad working conditions
  • low wages
  • physical and sexual abuse
  • violation of human rights
  • no health insurance
  • slavery
  • ? in our cases

8
Working Conditions
9
Case study Olympic Games 2008
  • Olympic projects built with "the blood" of
    migrant workers
  • approximately 5,300 migrant workers (90)
  • dangerous working conditions
  • bad housing condutions
  • exploitation by employers
  • no access to medical treatment
  • often go unpaid
  • are not registered as residents of Beijing
  •  

10
China Is Getting Ready
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Political regulations
13
Asian Migrant workers in America
  • The question is no longer,
  • How do people become Americans?
  • but rather How has America become its people?
  • ...Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled
    masses yearning to breath free,The wretched
    refuse of your teeming shore...

  • Emma Lazarus

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  • the United States a nation of immigrants
  • first immigration of Asians dates back to the
    18th century
  • never made up more than 5 of the entire
    immigration
  • the detention center at Angel Island was used for
    decades to interrogate Chinese immigrants
  • race-conscious immigration and naturalization
    policies
  • unequal laws

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  • no other immigrant group had to endure a
    consistent denial of citizenship
  • reasons for discriminatory treatment are grounded
    in racist beliefs of white European supremacy
  • stereotypes of Asians - yellow peril image
  • Asians and Asian Americans are perceived as
    foreigners, forever aliens

16
Conclusion
  • Pro
  • financial support of families
  • experiences of working in a new country
  • release of the own country
  • better payments
  • economical benefit
  • Contra
  • working and living conditions
  • exploitation
  • discrimination
  • unequal laws

? Improvements on migrant rights and treatment
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Sources
  • http//www.hrw.org/en/news/2004/08/31/asias-migran
    t-workers-need-better-protection
  • http//www.asianews.it/index.php?lenart11751
  • http//asjournal.zusas.uni-halle.de/15
  • http//www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/m_mwc_p1.htm
  • http//www.hrw.org/de/news/2008/03/11/china-ausbeu
    tung-von-wanderarbeitern-peking
  • http//www.asianews.it/index.php?lenart11751
  • Pictures
  • http//www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-1997
    3.htmlbackToArticle470899
  • http//larevolucioncreativa.blogspot.com/2007/10/d
    rerchos-humanos-olmpicos.html
  • http//marionluettig.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/ents
    tehunggeschichte-des-logos-fur-die-olympischen-spi
    ele/

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