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Migrant Workers

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What are the local and global issues concerning the exploitation of migrant workers?

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My Solution

Government Involvement

With the government's more interactive involvement, the lives of the migrant workers will better drastically. This involvement will lead to an enforcement, and that enforcement will need to be monitored in order to best improve their lives.

Potential Solutions

What to do?

  • Create new policies.
  • Improve and stricken existing policies.
  • Random inspections by the National Center for Farm Workers.
  • Ensure a higher income housing facility.
  • Implement laws ending the workers' abuse.

Eliminate Encouraging Factors

Public Awareness

Promote economic development and good governance in countries where workers are emigrating, particularly Latin America to get rid of the push-pull factors that encourage illegal immigration.

Inform the public on the dangers and harsh conditions in which migrant workers endure.

This will result in:

  • Better treatment
  • Pay raises
  • Living conditions improved

Government Involvement

Increase political involvement and awareness in order for better policies to be put into place.

How:

  • Check-ups
  • Lower the cost of living
  • Create worker's rights

Non-Profit Organizations

Business

Establish more non-profit organization groups, emulating the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.

Well-known businesses shall come together and find ways to benefit the migrant workers by managing to provide them with a larger income.

How:

  • Aid in access to food, places to sleep, heal, etc.
  • Provide free supplies
  • Expand the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

How:

  • Paying more for products
  • Awareness of the origin of products
  • Donating money

Themes

Melinda Thirion

Politics

Culture

Economy

Ethics

  • Ideas of success
  • Gives status
  • Dehumanizing
  • Morals
  • Human Rights
  • Lack of agreement
  • Policy disputes
  • Minimal enforcement
  • Low wages
  • Beneficial
  • Business and consumer needs

US 1449

Taking a global stance

China

The rural workforce in China surged to 261.6 million as of 2012. The number of migrant workers who left the countryside in search for jobs in cities reached 163.36 million, accounting for 12.6 percent of China's total population.

Qatar

  • Migrant workers comprise 94% of all its workers and 86% of its total population of 2 million.
  • The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) estimates that around 500,000 to 1 million additional foreign construction workers will be required to help build an estimated US$220 billion worth of hotels, stadiums, other facilities, and infrastructure by 2022.

Migrant Workers in Southwest Florida

Singapore

There is a total of 5.31 million migrant workers as of 2012, and this makes up 40% of the workforce.

$1.60

According to the International Labour Organization:

-As of 2014, there were an estimated 232 million international migrants in the world.

Specifically, Immokalee

The Issue

The largest of cities generate enormous amounts of income, yet perpetually impose high taxes in accompany with low wages on the copious amounts of migrant workers in its country.

How can we define migrant workers?

"Today, Immokalee is comprised primarily of Hispanics and Latinos, who make up 73 percent of the population; “some other race” is 41.3 percent; whites are 27 percent; and blacks are 22.1 percent. Only a third of Immokalee’s residents is a high school graduate or higher, compared with a national average of 85 percent. A third of families are also below the poverty level; nationally that figure is 10 percent."

-New York Times

What's being done?

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

A Closer Look...

Is it really worth it?

The wait

The work

The housing

The truth

Gaytan, Jose A., Mexican Migrant Farmworkers’ Impact on South Florida: A Case Study in the Context of US-Mexican Relations" (2013).Open Access Dissertations.Paper 968.

"The study concentrates on the Homestead–Immokalee corridor of South Florida where, during the peak of the harvest from October to May, more than 20,000 Mexican farmworkers participate in the agricultural industry. The study found that in 2010, farmers in Florida sold agricultural commodities for more than $7.6 billion, creating a positive direct and indirect impact on the state's economy."

______________________________

  • To broadly define, a migrant worker is simply one who works outside of his/her home country.

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  • Fair Food Program
  • Anti-Slavery Campaign
  • Campaign for Fair Food

What are the perpetual issues of migrant workers?

Issues

  • Hazardous working conditions
  • Poverty
  • Health
  • Resulting from:

1. Poor nutrition

2. Low-income status

3. Unfamiliarity with culture

4. Lack of sanitation

5. An unawareness

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