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Migrant workers often work in more hazardous occupations, under informal work arrangements and to lower wages compared to non-migrant workers, which pose them at an increased risk of work related illness. [152] [153] Studies show that migrant workers are at higher risk of work injuries than non-immigrant workers. [154]
The main concerns of developed countries regarding immigration centres are: (1) the local job seekers' fear of competition from migrant workers, (2) the fiscal burden that may result on native taxpayers for providing health and social services to migrants, (3) fears of erosion of cultural identity and problems of assimilation of immigrants, and ...
In the United States, immigrant workers hold a disproportionate share of jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM): "In 2013, foreign-born workers accounted for 19.2 percent of STEM workers with a bachelor's degree, 40.7 percent of those with a master's degree, and more than half—54.5 percent—of those with a PhD" [223]
Immigrants are also highly represented in the slowest growing occupations, making up approximately 28% of new entries in the U.S. and 24% in Europe. In the United States, these occupations are primarily in production and other industries that domestic workers would consider unattractive; in the absence of demand for these occupations, immigrant ...
Immigrants are behind most of the growth in the U.S. labor force the past few years. The trend has helped ease worker shortages and slow inflation.
'A person who moves from one place to another in order to find work or better living conditions' (Oxford), [6] or 'one that migrates: such as a person who moves regularly in order to find work especially in harvesting crops' (Webster's); [7] or Immigrant 'A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country' (Oxford), [8] or
The number of new immigrant workers entering the construction industry dropped by a third in 2017 — Donald Trump’s first year in office — the first such decline in six years.
provisionally set aside the issue of domestic workers’ rights to better focus on another campaign I had launched, advocating for Caribbean immigrants in detention, facing deportation. (See The Faces of Detention and Deportation: A Report on the Forced Repatriation of Immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean). I coordinated efforts