migrant worker

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"Everyone is worried," said 29-year-old labourer Bunty Goswami, a migrant worker at a shut plant.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Mladenova also pointed out that the statue is the only public monument in Berlin that speaks to Germany’s Korean diaspora, which got its start with a migrant worker program in the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024

France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, promised to build the Summer Olympics safely, free of the construction hazards and migrant worker abuses that tarnished soccer’s 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

From New York Times • May 8, 2024

Yotam and the two other slain hostages were held with Wichian Temthong, a Thai migrant worker.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2024

His father was a Dominican migrant worker who met his mother picking blueberries in Cherryfield, got her pregnant, moved back to the D.R. to shack up with a local girl, and never looked back.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline