misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 30 2007 | migrant labor, economics, graphics, poverty, globalization
Check out those graphs.
Quoted: A new study suggests that 1 in 10 people on the planet directly benefit from money sent home by migrants working in other countries. Here are figures detailing that money's impact on developing nations in 2006.
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 08 2007 | india, globalization, Migrant Labor, Kerala
Quoted: This verdant swath of southern Indian coastline is a famously good place to be poor. People in the state of Kerala live nearly as long as Americans do, on a sliver of the income. They read at nearly the same rates.
ShareViewed: 7 Times - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 06 2007 | Migrant Labor, labor, news, Persian Gulf, South Asia, India, Kerala
Quoted: They still wake before dawn in desert dormitories that pack a dozen men or more to a room. They still pour concrete and tie steel rods in temperatures that top 110 degrees. They still spend years away from families in India and Pakistan to earn about $1 an hour. They remain bonded to employers under terms that critics liken to indentured servitude.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 02 2007 | India, Migrant Labor
Quoted: Migrants who can no longer sustain themselves by farming are flocking to brickyards to fuel the Indian construction boom.
- misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - May 07 2007 | Migrant Labor, Asia, poverty
An in-depth article. A lot of it holds true not just for the Philippines but also in large swathes of South Asia.
Quoted: Migrant workers from the Philippines send billions back to their country. But the Comodas family’s multigenerational experience with working abroad shows that the human cost is harder to calculate.
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- deborealis - Nov 30 2007
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