migrant worker

Example Sentences

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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

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

Thus most of my classmates, starting with their seven weeks at the Academy, were becoming a kind of migrant worker.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover