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
"My employer has offered food and shelter, but I do not know what will happen if the shutdown continues indefinitely," says Bhumi Kumar, another migrant worker employed at a factory which makes tiles.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
In 2008, some 1,400 residents in Serangoon Gardens, an upper middle-class neighbourhood, petitioned against the construction of a migrant worker dormitory near their homes.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025
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
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
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