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Migrant in sentence

285 examples of Migrant in a sentence

Among the 200 million migrant workers, 60 percent of them are young people.
But this whole incident aroused a huge outcry from society about the isolation, both physical and mental, of these migrant workers.
Indeed, it is a rare but fortunate opportunity for a migrant to address a gathering like this.
In Dubai, I chronicled injustices and inequalities inflicted regularly on the migrant labor force.
And these are my future farmers of America, growing up in Brook Park on 141st Street, the most migrant community in America.
Later, she married a fellow migrant worker, moved with him to his village, gave birth to two daughters, and saved enough money to buy a secondhand Buick for herself and an apartment for her parents.
So I've been arguing in the last years that, in fact, the slums of Tijuana can teach a lot to the sprawls of San Diego when it comes to socioeconomic sustainability, that we should pay attention and learn from the many migrant communities on both sides of this border wall so that we can translate their informal processes of urbanization.
I'm really just talking about the compendium of social practices of adaptation that enable many of these migrant communities to transgress imposed political and economic recipes of urbanization.
I'm talking simply about the creative intelligence of the bottom-up, whether manifested in the slums of Tijuana that build themselves, in fact, with the waste of San Diego, or the many migrant neighborhoods in Southern California that have begun to be retrofitted with difference in the last decades.
They also taught me that similar to the migrant communities on both sides of the border, they engaged conflict itself as a creative tool, because they had to produce a process that enabled them to reorganize resources and the politics of the city.
Now, the most strenuous of these trips are taken by the country's 290 million migrant workers, for many of whom this is the one chance a year to go home and see parents and their left-behind children.
This enormous need of migrant workers has powered fast upgrade and innovation across the country's transport systems.
And they grow up with at least one parent far away from home, as a migrant worker.
Migrant workers from Rome to Los Angeles and many cities between are now organizing to stage strikes to remind the people who live in their cities what a day without immigrants would look like.
Maybe it's a migrant lesson.
Another major impediment to the flow of remittances reaching the family is the large and exorbitant and illegal cost of recruitment, fees that migrants pay, migrant workers pay to laborers who found them the job.
There are millions of migrant workers who suffer from this problem.
Annually, migrant savings are estimated to be 500 billion dollars.
Migrant communities, older generations dying off, and ultimately poor record-keeping have led to conflicts over who owns what.
If we ended recruitment fees for migrant workers?
And no migrant would take that dangerous journey if they had enough food for themselves and their children.
I worked to show how getting infected was not a moral failure but instead related to a culture of male superiority, to forced migrant labor and to colonialism.
There's no call to ban rich people from hiring nannies or getting manicures, even though most of the people doing that labor are poor, migrant women.
It's the fact of poor migrant women selling sex specifically that has some feminists uncomfortable.
One of them was a poem written by nine students in an ESL class, all of them Hispanic migrant workers from nearby Hartville, Ohio.
The migrant trail has taught me how we treat our most vulnerable residents in the United States.
And most of all, the migrant trail has taught me that everyone who embarks on it is changed forever.
Families are the heart and lifeblood of the migrant trail.
But by the time I was documenting the migrant trail in Guatemala in the late 2000s, most Americans had no connection to the increasing levels of violence, impunity and migration in Central America.
Now not every migrant at the border is a refugee.
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