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3 unusual facts about migrant worker


Acqua Fuori Dal Ring

The film parallels the lives of two boxers living in Catania, one a Sicilian native, and the other a Tunisian migrant.

Harvest of Shame

Harvest of Shame was a 1960 television documentary presented by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS that showed the plight of American migrant agricultural workers.

Nuss Lake

These communities are established upon seasonal industry, which feature large swings in labor force size, and in many cases, precipitate mass migrations of workers.


Blueprint Education

Founded in 1969, Blueprint Education first offered correspondence learning to migrant worker families in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Leslie T. Chang

In 2004 she traveled to the South Central China factory city of Dongguan to document the lives of Wu Chunming and Lu Qingmin, two migrant workers who were born to poor farming families.

Pastures of Plenty

Describing the travails and dignity of migrant workers in North America, it is evocative of the world described in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

Train surfing

In the United States, this became a common means of transportation following the American Civil War as the railroads began pushing westward, especially among migrant workers who became known as "hobos."


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Lost on Journey

Arriving at the crowded airport, Li finds he has been mistakenly booked in the economy class and sits next to the first-time flyer Niu Geng (Baoqiang Wang), who is a naïve and gullible migrant worker.

Migrant sex work

Because of the UAE's large migrant worker population, restrictive labor contracts, and lack of anti-trafficking partnerships with NGOs, the United States Department of State Trafficking In Persons Report gave UAE a series of Tier 3 and Tier 2 Watchlist rankings.