labour migration
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflabourandmigration
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labour
noun
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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migration
noun[C or U]
uk/maɪˈɡreɪ.ʃən/us/maɪˈɡreɪ.ʃən/
the process of animals travelling to a different place, usually when the ...
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(Definition oflabourandmigrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflabour migration
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The second islabourmigration, and particularly that of children.
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In fact, observers noted repeatedly thatlabourmigrationwas not driven by brute necessity.
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For those without a herd,labourmigrationprovided the means to build one.
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This was a form of semi-skilledlabourmigrationentirely organized by private firms, without any state intervention.
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However, this direct link between taxation andlabourmigrationis challenged by other observations of the same colonial administrators.
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This would therefore require a large amount oflabourmigration.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
All in all, the present analysis thus has led to a somewhat mixed conclusion about the role of the laws of settlement onlabourmigration.
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At a more general level, a feature common to both historical and present-daylabourmigrationby children seems to be its paradoxical nature.
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So, almost half a century after the introduction of the indenture system, 'free'labourmigrationfinally experienced some government control as well.
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She further examines the effects oflabourmigrationon agricultural development, a theme which is also tackled in the next two chapters.
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They suggest that influence of factors such aslabourmigration, poverty, homesteading, wealth differentiation of households, etc. needs to be probed.
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The issues relating tolabourmigrationare relevant to the competitiveness and vitality of economies.
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In my opinion, this wording implies a positive assessment oflabourmigrationfrom third countries.
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For, in spite of being generally labelled 'free' or even 'spontaneous' migration, to distinguish it from indenturedlabourmigration, the migration of commercial people was a highly organized process.
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For this study of deforestation by squatters, the model has been specially developed to include the production and deforestation at the agricultural frontier and further describe incentives forlabourmigration.
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In several cases, we should like to go further with regard to becoming more receptive to increasedlabourmigration.
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Labourmigrationcontinued up to and after independence.
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Why are we not creating opportunities for our young people, but instead telling them that we needlabourmigrationfrom overseas?
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It is a gamble to expect that the unemployed will go where the work is, especially in the case of cross-borderlabourmigration.
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He engaged directly with social conflicts and cultural contradictions of colonialism, with racism, urbanisation andlabourmigration.
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The public at large are witnessing the phenomenon oflabourmigration, where people living far from home do the dirty and unsafe work and are badly paid and housed.
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Churches were to involve themselves in diverse campaigns such as poll tax reform, the effects on families due tolabourmigrationand issues of racial inequality.
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Aside from providing more food, increasing the productivity of farms affects the region's prospects for growth and competitiveness on the agricultural market, income distribution and savings, andlabourmigration.
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