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

Labour activists have for many years drawn attention to the problem of abuses of the large migrant worker population in Malaysia.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

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

One migrant worker interviewed was a minor who had skipped school to work at the Holiday Inn LAX.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023

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