position:migrant worker

Remittance & Blockchain — Match Made In Heaven ?
▻https://hackernoon.com/remittance-blockchain-match-made-in-heaven-5f5ad8500a2?source=rss----3a8

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Remittance & Blockchain — Match Made In Heaven?Remittance is the transfer of money from a migrant worker to someone back in their home country. People have always moved in search of better work prospects in high-income (or high currency value as compared to home) countries. Based on the World Migration Report 2018, there are currently an estimated 244 million international migrants living in other countries. This number has either directly or indirectly contributed to the global remittance’s $689 billion dollar industry with India being top of the pile, contributing $80 Billion or 11.6% of its entirety. The global remittance industry is expected to grow by more than 3% in 2019.Traditional Remittance MarketCompanies such as Western Union and MoneyGram come to mind when we talk about (...)

#atm-services #moneyfi #blockchain-technology #remittance-blockchai #remittances

Monuments to the work of Bangladeshi migrants

An estimated 9.4m Bangladeshis have left the country to seek employment abroad. Their experiences are being chronicled in poetry and art.

Diana Campbell Betancourt, the artistic director and chief curator of the Dhaka Art Summit, says that “one cannot understand Bangladesh without considering these workers.” All too often, they are abused and overworked, treated as slaves or indentured servants. “These workers give so much with their labour, and they need to be seen as more than just bodies,” she says. The Dhaka summit shows that they are not only more than bodies, fully human, but artists, too.

Kamruzzaman Shadhin, a Bangladeshi artist, collected the abandoned clothes of Bangladeshis who were illegally trafficked into Malaysia and Thailand, tapping an internal migrant community in Thakurgaon to stitch them together into a giant patchwork quilt (pictured, top). Liu Xiaodong, a Chinese artist, paints portraits of migrant workers in a medium often reserved for powerful patrons. In one, a bearded man looks over his shoulder with a wary face and a cigarette in his mouth against a blue background (pictured). In another, a gaunt man with sunken cheeks is a picture of exhaustion, his eyes bloodshot from working long hours. Mr Liu’s work humanises these workers, but does not glamourise their suffering.

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Et de la #poésie :

Mr Khokan never strayed from his writing roots, and needed a way to express his experiences in a creative manner. He founded Amrakajona (“We Are” in Bengali) as a group for Bengali migrant workers interested in poetry, as well as another poetry group, Singapore Bengali Literature. The Dhaka Art Summit, which ran from February 2nd-10th in the dusty, congested Bangladeshi capital, showcased poetry from members of Singapore Bengali Literature. Mr Khokon read “Pocket 2”, a lament for his wife and their forced separation:

I remember when I returned this time
my heart dissolved in your tears
The pocket of my shirt was wet
Reaching the end of my memories
I wear that shirt every night
and write love poems to you

MD Sharrif Uddin, another poet, addressed the invisibility of the migrant worker directly:

Though my tears satisfy the thirst of the city,
It will forget me by and by!
But like the waters on the high waves of the river,
I’ll survive and I’ll be there.
The sweat of my tired body has
Become the moisture of the city,
and in this moisture, I’ll survive.
I live forever.

▻https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2018/02/constructing-identities?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/monumentstotheworkofbangladeshimigrantsconstructingidentities
#migrants_bangladais #migrations #travailleurs_étrangers #monument #art #esclavage_moderne (ping @reka) #exploitation #exil #poésie
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‘I Am Fan Yusu’: A Chinese Migrant Worker’s Tale

The vast scale of the internal migration underway in China presents one of the greatest integration challenges in the world. In this extract from her essay, which has become a literary sensation in China, Fan Yusu offers a rare personal insight into this struggle.

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’My biggest regret’: Being a migrant worker in Greece

’Where is this Europe?’ asks one Pakistani migrant worker as they share stories of abuse and working without pay.

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Love on China’s factory floor, by Peter Bengtsen
▻https://mondediplo.com/blogs/love-on-china-s-factory-floor #st

When Ying, 18, arrived in Shenzhen from Guangxi’s countryside to enter the 168-million migrant workforce that makes up China’s factory floor, she was the image of a migrant worker — of rural origin, young, hardworking, poorly-educated, low-paid, with no energy for out-of-work activities or socialising — and single.

But then she fell in love — with a colleague at work, also a migrant. They dated for a long time, talking for hours of things they had in common; she envisaged marriage just around the corner. She differed from the majority of migrant workers — not by falling in love, but because she had found love through her everyday life. Li Wang, a schoolteacher in an industrial area of Shenzhen, says: ”Ying’s love story is unusual. It is not easy or common for migrants to meet the right partner through their daily lives here. Many don’t find time to socialise, and also they move around a lot for employment, so they don’t manage to build lasting friendships. The lucky ones may be introduced to a good partner by good friends.”

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La grande avancée sociale du jour : le ministre du travail interdit aux employées domestiques de monter un syndicat
Lebanon Labor Ministry rejects maids union proposal
▻http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Jan-26/285375-lebanon-labor-ministry-rejects-maids-union-proposal.ashx

Lebanon’s Labor Ministry flatly rejected Monday a proposal calling for the creation of a union for migrant domestic workers.

The Labor Ministry dismissed the proposal submitted by the National Federation of Labor Unions earlier this month, saying that it would not consider the formation of the “illegal” syndicate.

“Advanced laws would solve the problems that the [migrant worker] sector is suffering from, not the formation of groups under the guise of a syndicate,” the statement read.

(Sauf erreur, le ministre est vice-chef des Phalanges. Mais ce serait sans doute le même topo avec un 8 Mars.)

Israel ignoring deaths of Thai workers on farms, Human Rights Watch says | Global development | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/21/israel-thai-workers-farms-human-rights-watch

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After toiling in the sun on an Israeli farm for 17 hours, Praiwan Seesukha, a 37-year-old Thai migrant worker, went to sleep next to other exhausted labourers in a crowded shed. He did not wake up.

Israeli authorities failed to investigate Praiwan’s death and speculation is mounting among rights groups that poor working conditions on Israel’s farms could be behind the death of migrant workers like him.

About 25,000 Thai nationals work in Israel, mostly farming vegetables, fruit and seeds, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published on Wednesday.

An estimated 122 Thai migrant farm workers have died in the country since 2008, including 43 from a heart condition known as sudden nocturnal death syndrome, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The cause of death of 22 migrants is unknown because, as in Praiwan’s case, the authorities failed to investigate.

#Israël #travail #migration #thaïs #exploitation #agriculture_industrielle