Word: migrant
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...Every day now at the Guangzhou train station, just a few miles away from Wang's office, hundreds of migrant workers wait to start the long journey back to their home provinces. They have been laid off from jobs working in toy and textile factories, and from construction sites throughout what used to be a booming province. Among them is Zhang Dingli, 36, who worked in a toy factory for a decade. But in early November, the plant closed. He is a victim of an economic transition - a move away from the low-end, low-wage, export-oriented manufacturing...
...Soon, he acknowledged, he may have to join the exodus out of Guangdong province of migrant workers, now jobless, who are headed back to their hometowns in less-prosperous parts of the country. This exodus - the reversal of more than two decades of migration from poor rural areas to faster-growing, coastal cities - is most visible at the Guangzhou train station, where hundreds of migrants, all bearing suitcases and shopping bags crammed with their worldly belongings, sit outside for hours waiting to board trains home. On Nov. 26, Zhang De Jun, 35, was one of them. For 10 years...
...migration from Latin American nations to the United States: Though they're often portrayed as a burden on the U.S. economy, the report argues that immigrants are instead a key driver, and one which accounted for half the growth in our nation's labor force during the 1990s. Migrant contributions to the labor market have been obscured by illegal immigration, a political hot potato that has ramped up tensions between U.S. and Latin American nations. "On balance," the authors argue, "the impact of immigration on the U.S. economy has been significant and positive. Estimates of the net benefits...
...spiking inflation rate, the state set out to cool things down last year. That meant introducing new, tougher labor laws and other measures designed to shut down lower value-added production of goods like toys and garments, precisely the area where now, months later, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are losing jobs. In the early 2008 bubbling property market, authorities conveyed to potential house buyers that they would be wise to hold off. "The government basically said, 'You'd be a complete idiot to buy an apartment right now because we're going to make sure that prices drop...
...Funded by the $25 fee each legally departing worker pays to the government, OWWA runs programs to support its globetrotting workforce, including mandatory predeparture orientations, free life insurance, a voluntary savings plan and, when workers return, family counseling, free job training and access to scholarships and loans. Migrant workers are also required to buy national health insurance, which extends to their families. But as more and more women leave, the government needs to step up its efforts to develop programs that specifically address the needs of workers' kids, says UNICEF. "We want children and families to be involved in every...