Describing local migrant-contractor power dynamics, Michael Baron, an agent with the U.S. Border Patrol who knows Florida well, told me, "Most of the time, these workers are housed miles from civilization, with no telephones or cars.
Migrants' economic power increases their voice, and their ability to significantly affect electoral outcomes in their home country.
This empirical evidence shows that migrants' economic power increases their voice, and their ability to affect electoral outcomes in their home country.
Just as West Germany imported thousands of Turkish, Greek and Italian migrants to power its economic miracle, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) on the eastern side sought to bolster its workforce with unskilled Gastarbeiter, or "guest workers", to help build socialism on German soil.
The second Honda strike comes amid growing signs that, in a recent and remarkable shift of labor dynamics, China's huge migrant work force is gaining bargaining power.
Akbar, who declined to give his last name, is one of the many migrant workers who power Moscow's huge economy.
Your clothes, your kids' toys and most of the stuff you own was probably produced in factories in southern China by migrant workers who power through their overtime shifts by eating instant noodles, of which MSG is a vital ingredient.
This empirical evidence suggests the presence of an inverse relationship between the degree of institutional embeddedness and inclusive attitudes towards migrant workers: institutional power tends to reduce trade unions' need to resort to the membership, thus lowering recruiting and organizing efforts towards underrepresented groups.
While the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was still in power, migrants – including many deserving of humanitarian protection – were intercepted off the shores of Libya in particular and returned to the tender mercies of the Gaddafi regime.
For anyone in Milwaukee wondering why a south-side bar named Alex's Place suddenly closed for business two weeks ago, its Mexican owners rushed here to support a burgeoning movement aimed at giving this country's vast population of migrants real political power back home.
