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Migrant workers in Qatar account for six times as many people as naturalized citizens, with the largest sending communities being India, amounting to 23.58% of the total population of Qatar, Nepal, which makes up 17.3%, and the Philippines, which makes up 9.65%. Migrant workers makeup the majority of Qatar's labor force at 94%. [103]
Oct. 26—Foreign migrant workers have been helping fuel the U.S. economy for years and the border crisis is highlighting their importance as immigration becomes a key issue in the presidential race.
Migrant workers in Florida had the opportunity to get their COVID-19 shots during a year-long health campaign. Alianza Americas, a network of more than 50 migrant-led organizations in 18 states ...
Migrant workers in the UAE were seen working hard in the dangerous hot weather and humidity at the facilities that were being prepared for the COP28 climate conference, on two separate days in September 2023. FairSquare, human rights research and advocacy, obtained proof that more than a dozen migrant workers from Africa and Asia were working ...
Of the 271 million international migrants today, 130 million – or nearly half – are women. The share of women migrants increased from 46.7% in 1960 to 48.4% in 2010, [17] but has declined slightly over the past two decades, from 49.1% in 2000 to 47.9% in 2019. [18]
Migrant worker Fajima Kamara came to Lebanon three years ago from Sierra Leone, but when Israeli jets started pounding her neighbourhood with airstrikes last month, her employers left her jobless ...
Rural-urban migrant workers have a significant presence in China's labor force. [55] By 2006, migrant workers comprised 40% of the total urban labor force. [56] According to data from National Bureau of Statistics, in 2009 nearly 39.1% of them worked in manufacturing, about 17.3% in construction and more than 7.8% in wholesale and retail.
Israel relies heavily on migrant workers like Suriya, 38, a married father of two from Thailand’s Udon Thani province who works on a flower farm in Netanya, a city on the Mediterranean coast ...