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The term "migrant worker"generally refers to a person who is to be engaged, is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national.

Resources in This Category

• BBC NEWS | Business | Migrant workers 'face exploitation'

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3060061.stm
  A lack of legal protection for migrant workers who arrive in the UK is giving the green light to unscrupulous employers, the TUC says.

• Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations

  http://www.coffo.org/
  Helps migrant and seasonal farmworkers in south Florida and the Glades with emergency assistance, immigration, substance abuse and mental health, literacy and employment. Partnerships with UMOS and MAFO, conference dates.

• Commission for Farm Workers' Rights

  http://cfwr.tripod.com/
  Based in Oxnard, California. Its main purpose is to help hard working immigrants and their families obtain justice and fair treatment.

• International Labour Migration

  http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/migrant/
  Resources from the International Labor Organization including a migrant workers database, standards of work, and goals for improving conditions.

• Justica For Migrant Workers

  http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/
  Activists based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada promoting the rights of seasonal Caribbean and Mexican migrant farm workers who annually participate in the federal government's Caribbean and Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (known as SAW).

• Migrant Workers in Israel: A contemporary form of slavery

  http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/il1806a.pdf
  Report in PDF format on the condition of foreign workers in Israel.

• Migrant workers sue Wal-Mart

  http://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/nov/12/supermarkets.usnews
  Conditions of cleaners 'a step from slavery' lawyer alleges. Published in the Guardian.

• Migrants.Net

  http://www.migrants.net/
  Resources for migrant workers from the Mission for Filipino Migrant Workers Society in Hong Kong.

• Migration Network

  http://www.lnf.org.lb/migrationnetwork/migrant.html
  Information on migrant workers in Lebanon.

• Overworked, underpaid and over here - Migrant workers in Britain

  http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-6878-f0.cfm
  Report from the Trades Union Congress in Britain on issues surrounding migrant workers including the impact on labour in Britain. Introduction is free though the full report is accessible only by purchase.

• The Human Rights of Migrant Workers

  http://www.pdhre.org/rights/migrants.html
  Background information from the People's Movement for Human Rights Education.

• The Migrant Experience

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html
  Examination of the experience of migrant workers in California (Mexicans and "Okies") during the first half of the twentieth century.

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