Prevalence of common mental health issues among migrant workers: A
Previous literature has shown that migrant workers manifested higher common mental issues (especially depressive symptom) compared to local workers due to stressors such as financial constraint and lack of access to healthcare. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to summarize the current body of evidence for the prevalence of depression and anxiety among migrant workers as ...
Migrant workers occupational health research: an OMEGA-NET working
Objective The aims of the study were: (1) to clarify the definitions of "migrant" used in occupational health research; (2) to summarize migrant workers' industry sectors, occupations and employment conditions; (3) to identify the occupational health and safety services available to migrant workers; (4) to summarize work-related health problems found among migrant workers; (5) to ...
The plight of migrants during COVID-19 and the impact of ...
This review-paper aims to study in detail the multiple facets of the predicaments the migrant workers were going through in the Indian context during the pandemic and the lockdown.
(Not That) Essential: A Scoping Review of Migrant Workers' Access to
Migrant workers have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To examine their access to health services and social protection during the pandemic, we conducted an exploratory scoping review on experiences of migrant workers in three countries with comparable immigration, health, and welfare policies: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. After screening 961 peer-reviewed and ...
Demand for migrant workers: institutional system effects beyond
The aim of this paper is to expand research on how national institutional systems shape the employment of migrants, and thus also societal resilience, in high-income countries by thinking about systems outside the box of the nation state. ... Migrant workers may be rendered particularly vulnerable to poor employment practices because ...
Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic
The paper combines key insights from research on the role of migrant workers in addressing labour and skills shortages (Section 2) with the (essentially disconnected) studies of systemic resilience (Section 3) to suggest how considerations of systemic resilience can be integrated into analyses and policy debates on labour migration (Section 4).
Analysing how government-provided vocational skills training affects
Therefore, this study takes migrant workers as the research object, utilizes the 2016 and 2018 CLDS panel data to construct two periods of panel date, and applies PSM-DID to analyze the role of ...
Migrant workers occupational health research: an OMEGA-NET working
Methods: This position paper was prepared by researchers from several European countries and Australia, working within the EU COST Action OMEGA-NET. The paper drew on two recent systematic reviews on the occupational health of international migrant workers and other literature, and also identified uncertainties and gaps in the research literature.
Perceived employability of skilled migrants: a systematic review and
Conceptualisation of the employability of SMs. Despite stated need for more flow of skilled workers across borders, skilled migrants experience barriers to enter the labour market (Fang et al., Citation 2009) and frequently face long periods of unemployment upon entry to a new country.Even, after being employed, they are likely to have longer paths to socialization and network development ...
Migrant Workers and COVID-19: Listening to the Unheard Voices of
The issue of migrant workers' suffering caught the eyes of urban India for the first time on 28 March 2020, where the whole nation witnessed thousands of helpless migrant workers standing in a long queue of approximately 3 km in front of Anand Vihar Bus terminus (Delhi) desperate to catch the bus to reach to their native place (the Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Government had arranged buses for ...
(PDF) Migrant Workers
The paper shows how it is through the evaluation and promotion of migrant domestic workers' capabilities that current approaches can secure rights along with sustainable livelihood choices at the ...
Labour Migration, Vulnerability, and Development Policy: The ...
A number of papers in this issue analyse the conditions of migrant workers from the vantage point of receiving states and regions. The paper by Jayaram and Varma in this issue analyses the conditions of migrant workers industrialised Gujarat with a focus on two cities-Surat and Ahmedabad-and three sectors-construction, textiles, and hotels.
Migrant Worker Well-Being and Its Determinants: The Case of Qatar
Table 1 displays the descriptive statistics of the well-being variables used in this paper. We asked workers five subjective questions relating to migrant worker well-being. This includes questions about whether they are satisfied with their job, with the way their rights are respected in Qatar, with their salary, with how their company treats them at the workplace, and with their medical care.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Internal Labour Migration in India: A 'Crisis
Secondly, the paper examines the gendered aspects of COVID-19 on migrant workers, since most of the narratives, albeit limited, were male-centred. The third section gives an account of mental health issues of migrants, and the fourth section highlights the limitations of social security provisions that failed to address the multidimensional ...
ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers
Paperback. Download: pdf - 3.4 MB. This third edition of the ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers: Results and Methodology presents the most recent estimates on the stock of international migrant workers, disaggregated by age, sex, country-income group and region, and the estimation methodology. The reference year is 2019.
Remaking "the people": Immigrant farmworkers, environmental justice and
The other was systematizing migrant forms of labor, which has guaranteed a paucity of property ownership, place-based claims and community alliances. California's "factories in the field," as dubbed by journalist Carey McWilliams (1939) , long relied on the contingent and seasonal workers - through sharecropping or hourly and piece rate ...
Irregular Migrant Workers and Health: A Qualitative Study of Health
In public health research, the health issues of irregular and vulnerable migrant populations remain under-explored. In particular, while mainland China has become a new and popular job-seeking destination for Filipino domestic workers (FDWs), the health status of FDWs and their access to healthcare have been invisible to public and academic concerns.
Migrant worker inclusion and psychological well-being: Insights from
Article on Migrant worker inclusion and psychological well-being: Insights from the hospitality and tourism workplace, published in Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 55 on 2023-05-24 by Issahaku Adam+2. Read the article Migrant worker inclusion and psychological well-being: Insights from the hospitality and tourism workplace on R Discovery, your go-to avenue for effective ...
PDF "Impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers in India: Issues and Challenges"
Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science Volume 8 ~ Issue 12 (2020)pp: 35-40 ISSN(Online):2321-9467 www.questjournals.org *Corresponding Author:MobaydulMallick35 | Page Research Paper "Impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers in India: Issues and Challenges". MobaydulMallick,
Migrant workers occupational health research: an OMEGA-NET working
This paper has the following aims: To clarify definitions of "migrant" used in the occupational health research. To summarize migrant workers' industry sectors, occupations, and employment conditions. To identify the occupational health and safety services available to migrant workers.
(PDF) Indian Migrant Workers in Pandemic Times.
A migrant worker is an individual who either relocates inside her nation of origin or outside it to seek work. ... This research paper reflects the situation of migrants' workers in pandemic ...
PDF Problems of Migrant Workers in India: A Post Pandemic Scenario
The data from the Census of 2011 shows that the total number of internal migrants in India was 45.36 crore which is 37% of the country's total population.6. In the absence of official data regarding the number of migrant workers in the year 2020, we may consider Professor Amitabh Kundu's estimation. He states that there are a total 65 ...
What headlines don't tell you about global migration, and what Stanford
Planning for Productive Migration program trainer reviewing class design on decision making map for migrants. Credit: Mercy Corps Niger, 2023. Stanford researchers affiliated with the King Center on Global Development—who represent departments and initiatives across the university—are at the forefront of research that seeks to answer those questions and many more.
Health care workers and migrant health: Pre- and post-COVID-19
Study purpose. The main purpose of this study is to review the several ways in which health care workers (HCW) could either impact migrant health or be directly impacted by migration and suggest the expansion of the current research agenda on migration and health to address a range of topics that are currently either neglected, insufficiently researched, or researched from different perspectives.
China's 'two sessions' 2024: long-awaited reform for 300 million
China is mulling providing equal social benefits for its 300 million migrant workers, a move that would grant that group the same level of coverage as urban residents and, the country hopes, open ...
Why have thousands of Chinese workers left Africa over the past decade
By the end of 2021, the official number of Chinese workers in Africa was about 93,000, a fall of 64 per cent from 2015, according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper about China ...
Study finds workers misjudge wage markets
"Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage," says MIT economist Simon Jäger, co-author of a newly published paper detailing the study's results. As a top-line figure, the study indicates that workers who would experience a 10 percent wage increase by switching firms only expect a 1 percent wage ...
Florida protects student-athletes from heat. It hasn't done the same
In 2017, Economos began working on legislation, first by commissioning research on worker injuries and deaths. With data in hand, the Farmworker Association consulted with other worker groups to ...
The Migrant Crisis and Access to Health Care
The cost of not providing health care to immigrants is big, but not as bad as many think. A study by Fernando A. Wilson et al in 2020 showed that the annual expenditures per person were $1629 for unauthorized immigrants and $3795 for authorized immigrants compared with $6088 for US-born individuals. 18.
Key takeaways from the China NPC 2024
MIGRANT WORKERS. China's rural and urban populations have long been divided by the hukou, a registration and identification system through which social benefits are allocated, such as health insurance and schools. Cities and urban areas generally have better social benefits than rural ones.
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Previous literature has shown that migrant workers manifested higher common mental issues (especially depressive symptom) compared to local workers due to stressors such as financial constraint and lack of access to healthcare. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to summarize the current body of evidence for the prevalence of depression and anxiety among migrant workers as ...
Objective The aims of the study were: (1) to clarify the definitions of "migrant" used in occupational health research; (2) to summarize migrant workers' industry sectors, occupations and employment conditions; (3) to identify the occupational health and safety services available to migrant workers; (4) to summarize work-related health problems found among migrant workers; (5) to ...
This review-paper aims to study in detail the multiple facets of the predicaments the migrant workers were going through in the Indian context during the pandemic and the lockdown.
Migrant workers have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To examine their access to health services and social protection during the pandemic, we conducted an exploratory scoping review on experiences of migrant workers in three countries with comparable immigration, health, and welfare policies: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. After screening 961 peer-reviewed and ...
The aim of this paper is to expand research on how national institutional systems shape the employment of migrants, and thus also societal resilience, in high-income countries by thinking about systems outside the box of the nation state. ... Migrant workers may be rendered particularly vulnerable to poor employment practices because ...
The paper combines key insights from research on the role of migrant workers in addressing labour and skills shortages (Section 2) with the (essentially disconnected) studies of systemic resilience (Section 3) to suggest how considerations of systemic resilience can be integrated into analyses and policy debates on labour migration (Section 4).
Therefore, this study takes migrant workers as the research object, utilizes the 2016 and 2018 CLDS panel data to construct two periods of panel date, and applies PSM-DID to analyze the role of ...
Methods: This position paper was prepared by researchers from several European countries and Australia, working within the EU COST Action OMEGA-NET. The paper drew on two recent systematic reviews on the occupational health of international migrant workers and other literature, and also identified uncertainties and gaps in the research literature.
Conceptualisation of the employability of SMs. Despite stated need for more flow of skilled workers across borders, skilled migrants experience barriers to enter the labour market (Fang et al., Citation 2009) and frequently face long periods of unemployment upon entry to a new country.Even, after being employed, they are likely to have longer paths to socialization and network development ...
The issue of migrant workers' suffering caught the eyes of urban India for the first time on 28 March 2020, where the whole nation witnessed thousands of helpless migrant workers standing in a long queue of approximately 3 km in front of Anand Vihar Bus terminus (Delhi) desperate to catch the bus to reach to their native place (the Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Government had arranged buses for ...
The paper shows how it is through the evaluation and promotion of migrant domestic workers' capabilities that current approaches can secure rights along with sustainable livelihood choices at the ...
A number of papers in this issue analyse the conditions of migrant workers from the vantage point of receiving states and regions. The paper by Jayaram and Varma in this issue analyses the conditions of migrant workers industrialised Gujarat with a focus on two cities-Surat and Ahmedabad-and three sectors-construction, textiles, and hotels.
Table 1 displays the descriptive statistics of the well-being variables used in this paper. We asked workers five subjective questions relating to migrant worker well-being. This includes questions about whether they are satisfied with their job, with the way their rights are respected in Qatar, with their salary, with how their company treats them at the workplace, and with their medical care.
Secondly, the paper examines the gendered aspects of COVID-19 on migrant workers, since most of the narratives, albeit limited, were male-centred. The third section gives an account of mental health issues of migrants, and the fourth section highlights the limitations of social security provisions that failed to address the multidimensional ...
Paperback. Download: pdf - 3.4 MB. This third edition of the ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers: Results and Methodology presents the most recent estimates on the stock of international migrant workers, disaggregated by age, sex, country-income group and region, and the estimation methodology. The reference year is 2019.
The other was systematizing migrant forms of labor, which has guaranteed a paucity of property ownership, place-based claims and community alliances. California's "factories in the field," as dubbed by journalist Carey McWilliams (1939) , long relied on the contingent and seasonal workers - through sharecropping or hourly and piece rate ...
In public health research, the health issues of irregular and vulnerable migrant populations remain under-explored. In particular, while mainland China has become a new and popular job-seeking destination for Filipino domestic workers (FDWs), the health status of FDWs and their access to healthcare have been invisible to public and academic concerns.
Article on Migrant worker inclusion and psychological well-being: Insights from the hospitality and tourism workplace, published in Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 55 on 2023-05-24 by Issahaku Adam+2. Read the article Migrant worker inclusion and psychological well-being: Insights from the hospitality and tourism workplace on R Discovery, your go-to avenue for effective ...
Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science Volume 8 ~ Issue 12 (2020)pp: 35-40 ISSN(Online):2321-9467 www.questjournals.org *Corresponding Author:MobaydulMallick35 | Page Research Paper "Impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers in India: Issues and Challenges". MobaydulMallick,
This paper has the following aims: To clarify definitions of "migrant" used in the occupational health research. To summarize migrant workers' industry sectors, occupations, and employment conditions. To identify the occupational health and safety services available to migrant workers.
A migrant worker is an individual who either relocates inside her nation of origin or outside it to seek work. ... This research paper reflects the situation of migrants' workers in pandemic ...
The data from the Census of 2011 shows that the total number of internal migrants in India was 45.36 crore which is 37% of the country's total population.6. In the absence of official data regarding the number of migrant workers in the year 2020, we may consider Professor Amitabh Kundu's estimation. He states that there are a total 65 ...
Planning for Productive Migration program trainer reviewing class design on decision making map for migrants. Credit: Mercy Corps Niger, 2023. Stanford researchers affiliated with the King Center on Global Development—who represent departments and initiatives across the university—are at the forefront of research that seeks to answer those questions and many more.
Study purpose. The main purpose of this study is to review the several ways in which health care workers (HCW) could either impact migrant health or be directly impacted by migration and suggest the expansion of the current research agenda on migration and health to address a range of topics that are currently either neglected, insufficiently researched, or researched from different perspectives.
China is mulling providing equal social benefits for its 300 million migrant workers, a move that would grant that group the same level of coverage as urban residents and, the country hopes, open ...
By the end of 2021, the official number of Chinese workers in Africa was about 93,000, a fall of 64 per cent from 2015, according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper about China ...
"Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage," says MIT economist Simon Jäger, co-author of a newly published paper detailing the study's results. As a top-line figure, the study indicates that workers who would experience a 10 percent wage increase by switching firms only expect a 1 percent wage ...
In 2017, Economos began working on legislation, first by commissioning research on worker injuries and deaths. With data in hand, the Farmworker Association consulted with other worker groups to ...
The cost of not providing health care to immigrants is big, but not as bad as many think. A study by Fernando A. Wilson et al in 2020 showed that the annual expenditures per person were $1629 for unauthorized immigrants and $3795 for authorized immigrants compared with $6088 for US-born individuals. 18.
MIGRANT WORKERS. China's rural and urban populations have long been divided by the hukou, a registration and identification system through which social benefits are allocated, such as health insurance and schools. Cities and urban areas generally have better social benefits than rural ones.