guestworker

This time, three labor bosses stand accused of recruiting dozens of Haitian workers -- here legally on "guestworker" visas -- with false promises, denying them access to their passports after arrival in Florida and forcing them to work and live in wretched conditions for little pay.

Sean Sellers: Chipotle's 'Integrity' Doesn't Reach its Farmworkers Sean Sellers 2010

American policy makers are currently debating whether the agricultural "guestworker" or H-2A program should be reformed to make it easier for growers to hire farmworkers from abroad.

Immigrant Walkout Monday May 1: Immigrant Walkout - Let Justice Roll Down Like a Mighty Water! 2006

The federal H2B "guestworker" visa program was set up for employers to hire people for the rebuilding effort.

08/29/2007 2007

The question is whether we also need to have some kind of guestworker program that would allow the border patrol to focus on smuggling for other reasons.

CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2005 2005

on "guestworker" visas and then held in servitude on farms in 13 states from Hawaii to

Organic Consumers Association News Headlines 2010

Keeping down low-skilled labor costs through the president's vast new guestworker plan would stifle this ongoing modernization process.

The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

U.S. legal immigration from Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere grew because of changes begun that year in visa allocation, while unauthorized migration (mostly from Mexico) grew because of the termination of the 1942-1965 "Bracero" guestworker (legal, temporary migration) program.

Mark Schuller: Guest Blog: An Anthropological Look at Arizona's Controversial Immigration Law 2010

But the government-sanctioned exploitation in the crab industry shows why rights activists balk at the concept of guestworker programs.

Michelle Chen: Crab Industry Workers Reveal Injustice of 'Legal' Migrant Labor 2010

The findings, reflective of common practices in the two-tier guestworker system, underscore the absurdity of the threshold that defines "legal" work, and how easily employers can bend laws or ignore them altogether.

Michelle Chen: Crab Industry Workers Reveal Injustice of 'Legal' Migrant Labor 2010

Officials and communities are constantly expected to siphon people according to their economic roles and legal status: illegal versus legal, guestworker programs, T-visas, U-visas, temporary protected status, green cards and taxpayer identification numbers.

Michelle Chen: Lessons from Cochabamba on Borders, Labels and Justice 2010