scholarly journals Ukrainian Labor Migrants in Poland: Challenges Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 228-239
Author(s):  
V. Vedeneeva
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Polish Economy ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

This article examines the situation of Ukrainian labor migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic, and shows how the pandemic and the resulting restrictions have affected the situation of Ukrainian citizens working in Poland. Thanks to the first anti-crisis measures undertaken by the Polish authorities at the very beginning of the pandemic, most of Ukrainians working in Poland were able to remain in the country, but their conditions of employment noticeably deteriorated. As the Polish economy “unfreezed”, the demand for migrant labor has been growing significantly, and faced with a shortage of workers a significant mber of employers has been ready to raise the wages of Ukrainians, for whom Poland is still the first country of destination.

scholarly journals ROLE AND PLACE OF EXTERNAL LABOR MIGRATION IN THE STRUCTURE OF FOREIGN LABOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
V.V. Komarovsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Foreign Labor ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Cis Countries

The article is based on the study results of the role of labor migrants from the post-Soviet countries in meeting the needs of Russian households in different services. The aim of the work is to analyze the structure of national contingents and the specifics of the services provided by labor migrants from specific CIS countries. The author used statistical and sociological methods of data analysis and a comparative analysis of data from various statistical sources on the problems of labor migration in Russia. The empirical base of the study is the second sample survey in the Rosstat modern history “Results of sample statistical observation of migrant labor. 2019", and the comparison with official statistics. Along with the introduction of previously unused data from a large-scale study conducted by Rosstat into scientific circulation, the author reveals the specifics of the sectoral distribution of immigrants from nine post-Soviet countries. The author concludes that the significant concentration of labor migrants in a certain range of industries providing services to households (i.e., actually to the population) mainly includes construction and repairs, cleaning, various types of agricultural work and transport services. Employment in other sectors is less widespread, which largely correlates with the professional and qualification structure of labor migrants. National preferences for employment in certain sectors are also observed. The author analyses the features of hiring migrants both by households and by members of households as entrepreneurs. It was revealed that the latter attract a limited number of labor migrants, since they are, first of all, individual entrepreneurs representing small and microenterprises. The study results may be of further use to federal and regional executive bodies responsible for the development and implementation of state policy in the field of regulation of external labor migration flows, open up prospects for more reliable forecasting of the balance of supply and demand for foreign labor.

Global Economic Crisis and Migrants’ Labor Market

2012 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
I. Tsapenko
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Foreign Labor ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Deep Recession ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

The article deals with the extent to which the deep recession of the economies of the developed countries at the end of the 2000s has caused crisis processes at the labor market. The author considers the effects of the recession in the segment of migrant labor arising from the nature of its operation. Also, it is explored how the continued flow of foreign labor affects the conditions of employment of local workers. It is shown that the crisis augmented the negative impact of immigration on working conditions and employment opportunities of local workers. However, it is concluded that in case of the economic recovery the immigration may help to expedite it.

scholarly journals NEPALI MIGRANTS IN INDIA: REMITTANCE AND LIVELIHOOD A CASE STUDY IN DELHI

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Keshav Bashyal, Ph D
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Crucial Component

In the Nepalese economy, job scarcity is very high because of low levels of industralisation and stagnancy in agriculture sector. Out-migration is evolved to be inevitable consequence of the inability of private sector as well as government policies to create jobs keep pace with the domestic supply of labour. Nepali migration to India is not new phenomena but after 1990s, more than one fifth of Nepalese labour force is thought to have moved to abroad, mainly to Middle East, South East and, India as low paid, unskilled temporary laborers (Khatri 2009).The migrant labor and remittances comprise a crucial component of the Nepalese economy. Though remittances phenomena have been growing rapidly, there is a lack of adequate detailed data on the subject. It is interesting that in Nepal’s first Human Development Report, nothing has been written on the remittances and it also underestimated the figures of foreign labor migrants-suggesting no more than 12,000 (NESAC/UNDP 1998), although it is widely known that the figure is much more than the mentioned above. Migration became the safety valve of Nepali economy which suffered from prolonged conflict, political instability, and unrest. Nepali youths are going abroad even though their income is marginal in these countries. Remittances’ impact on the economy in Nepal gained more significance in the last two decades because of following reasons: 1) the country is poor and per capita income is low; and 2) labour productivity is low (Khatri 2009). Nepal Living Standard Survey (2011) report consistently says that the substantial growth of volume of remittance income and the number of recipients from abroad is reducing poverty even in internal conflict situations. Households receiving remittances have increased from 23.4 percent to 55.8 percent during 1995-96 to 2010.. International remittance income increased from 7 billion to 258 billion rupees in the corresponding time periods (NLSS 1996, 2004 and 2010, and Dhakal 2012). KEYWORDS: migration, employment, foreign remittance, emigration, foreign exchange, migrant workers

scholarly journals Опыт трудовой миграции сельских жителей Калмыкии (по результатам глубинных интервью)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 688-695
Author(s):  
Nogan V. Badmaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Family And Marriage ◽  
The Republic

Introduction. Labor migration of Kalmykia’s rural population is a pressing challenge for the region. Permanent nature and endurance of the socioeconomic crisis in the agricultural sector of the republic have been adversely affecting the living standards of ordinary villagers. Lack of work opportunities and low salaries result in that the latter migrate en masse to the regional capital and even further. Goals. The study aims to analyze labor migration experiences of local rural dwellers. Materials and Methods. The paper summarizes a number of in-depth structured interviews. The qualitative research methods employed make it possible to view the issue in the eyes of unrelated actual participants of the migration processes, with certain attention paid to their backgrounds and life paths. Results. The work reveals one of the key economic factors underlying labor migration is the necessity to pay mortgage and consumer loans. And migration waves closely align with individual life cycles, such as marriage, divorce, births and even weddings of children. Some respondents reported their migrations were determined by certain adulthood stages of children. All these aspects give rise a new context of family and marriage relations: there emerge guest marriage patterns and changes in gender roles, e.g., in some families those are women who act as migrant workers. Roles of grandparents experience transformations forcing the latter to assume functions of the absent father of mother. Horizontal social networks come to the fore, including territorial and kindred ties. Such migrant labor experiences become a tool of economic strategies and mobility: people purchase dwellings in the city, and support children funding their plans with the earned money. So, migration of parents definitely serves a landmark for future migrations of their descendants. The results obtained attest to that the social profile of rural labor migrants contains quite a share of active individuals intensely motivated to work, ones who strive for better living standards and can adjust themselves to strenuous living / working conditions staying away from home and family.

Trafficking, Scandal, and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Argentina and the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 653 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Brennan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Labor Exploitation ◽  
Trafficking Victims ◽  
Definition Of

This article examines the varied consequences that the label “trafficked” holds for migrants and for the organizations that assist them. In the case of migrants from the Dominican Republic to Argentina, threat of U.S. economic sanctions prompted the two governments to document incidents of trafficking by labeling all forms of migrant labor exploitation as trafficking. Collapsing a range of coerced and noncoerced labor experiences under one label has muddied the definition of trafficking. In contrast, U.S. trafficking policy systematically ignores significant exploitation of labor migrants, in part because of the volatile politics of immigration in the United States, and because of the conflation of sex trafficking with trafficking. The article uses these two examples of the effects of labeling exploited workers as trafficking victims to draw attention to the politicization of the term “trafficking.”

Tajik Migrant Religious Poetry

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-177
Author(s):  
Tokhir S. Kalandarov
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Religious Poetry ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Semantic Translation ◽  
Central Asian Countries ◽  
Political Songs

Today there are hundreds of papers published on the problem of labor migration from Central Asian countries, its political, social and economic aspects, as well as on the problem of integration and adaptation of migrants in the Russian society. However, the topic of migrant poetry is still poorly studied in Russia. At least there is no such research on Tajik labor migrants. The genres of Tajik migrant poetry vary significantly and include such forms as love poems, political songs, songs about migration hardships, religious poems. This paper is based on the results of monitoring social networks «Odnoklassniki», «Facebook», as well as on the results of personal communication and interviews with poets. In the paper we use the poems of three authors written in Tajik, Russian and Shugnani languages. The semantic translation from Tajik and Shugnani was done by the author of this paper

Unpredictability and Life Style in a Migrant Labor Camp

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Nelkin
Keyword(s):  
Life Style ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Labor Camp
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