migrant labour
collocation in EnglishmeaningsofmigrantandLabour
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migrant
noun[C]
uk/ˈmaɪ.ɡrənt/us/ˈmaɪ.ɡrənt/
a person that travels to a different country or place, often in order to ...
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labour
adjective
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
belonging or relating to the ...
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(Definition ofmigrantandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Much of it is focused on the issues of increasing commercialisation and changing patterns of hiredmigrantlabour.
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Late nineteenth-century labour migration was consistent with the international division of labour and laid the framework formigrantlabourdiasporas in the region.
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The linkage debate is especially strong with reference to the role of non-agriculturalmigrantlabour(remittances\\pensions).
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Thus, local administrators could keep track of tax-paying inhabitants of their district and the major destinations of theirmigrantlabourforce.
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As already noted, pioneer fronts bring with themmigrantlabour.
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The ministry established the factory and built two townships to house themigrantlabourforce.
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Interesting as it is, however, the ' local approach ' contradicts the thrust of the previous chapter, which seemed to stress the regional interpretation ofmigrantlabour.
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Very different factors propelled women and men intomigrantlabour.
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In contrast, during the 2001-02 famine the cushioning effect ofmigrantlabourwas largely absent.
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Katutura initially consisted of 4,000 rental houses, a barrack-like single quarters area and a walled compound to accommodatemigrantlabour.
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Crucially, a diversified recruitment policy meant thatmigrantlabourcould be manipulated easily and ensured that workers were not easily assimilated or readily accepted by the local inhabitants.
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It should be noted that long-distance porterage was a specific kind ofmigrantlabour, with important differences from the more familiar migrant labour systems of the colonial period.
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Migrantlabourprevailed, which employers used to justify strikingly low wages (at least as important a factor in perpetuating migrancy).
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In this context, we are also looking at the question ofmigrantlabour.
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Are we going to disparage them by dismissing them asmigrantlabour?
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This also applies to the area ofmigrantlabour.
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