GGR208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Periphery Countries, Free Trade, Foreign Worker
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Migration as a permanent population strategy: van de kaa. Migration with less visible impacts upon populations: migrant workers/labour. Often, economically-motivated migrants are guest workers (migrant workers) Labour migration happens in all sectors of an economy. Duration of stay is important in defining this particular kind of migrant labour: temporary, short term (agricultural, service sector) main one, temporary, long term (live-in caregivers, permanent, long term (skilled workers) Internationally, there are approximately 232 million migrant workers (ilo, Globalization, demographic shifts, conflicts, income inequalities and climate change will encourage ever more workers and their families to cross borders in search of employment and security" (ilo, 2014) Precarious work-often contract work, and when contracts end it is not guaranteed workers will be signed on again. Managed to be beneficial of the locals. Benefits: employers stay competitive (paying minimum wages) Local economic benefits (related jobs and activities) Migrants fill job voids (jobs that locals won"t want to do)
