Migrant Labour - A contemporary Version Of The Slave Trade?

The cheap labour model that has driven the economies of most of South East Asia, China and other nations may be running out of breath. Twelve habitancy jumped off buildings at a positive factory's facilities in Shenzen (two survived however) exposing problems associated to ill treatment, mismanagement of staff, forces style training and a no nonsense corporate culture. Production line workers, together with pregnant women were forced to stand for eight hours on their jobs while not having time to retell with friends and sustain nests. Withholding of wages, locking away of personal documents etc etc. Are some of the abuses. Pay cuts and longer working hours are held out to these so as to reaming them that their jobs are at the mercy of the Boss.

Nine million Filipinos work abroad as migrant workers. an additional one four million, mostly from India, work in the Gulf region. The new global meltdown has driven sixty million habitancy below the poverty line worldwide. Twenty million migrant workers have lost their jobs in China alone. It is estimated that about eighty million migrant workers have crossed borders in search of jobs in the middle of China and South East Asia alone.

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One looming demand over all this is what will happen if these millions lose their jobs, expelled or thrown out of work in an additional one economic crunch? What about again about their remittances to their home countries which have come to be a big source of wage for countries such as the Phillipines and Bangladesh also propping up their families and households? A gnawing fear is, if and when an additional one downsizing slits the throats of economies will these workers have jobs to hang on to? Can they just stay afloat in the labour markets of their host countries? Will they be allowed to stay on, or will they turn to crime or come to be powder kegs of social unrest?

The story of both immigrants and migrant labour is: freedoms. Financial and personal freedoms. It's easy to feel snug and comfortable for the others who are citizens. But any day, anyone of us can be caught up like an antelope in a net as economies are battered. Here's one preventive step, a preemptive charge if you care to call it.

To your future,
Cally Rao

Migrant Labour - A contemporary Version Of The Slave Trade?

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