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Category : Agricultural laborers, Foreign
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Pages : 8

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Andorra Bruno
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Category : Agricultural laborers, Foreign
Languages : en
Pages : 43

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Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984349217
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Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Guest worker programs : impact on the American workforce and U.S. immigration policy : hearing before the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, July 19, 2006.

Author: United States House of Representatives
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ISBN: 9781674143989
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Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Guest worker programs: impact on the American workforce and U.S. immigration policy: hearing before the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, July 19, 2006.

Author: United States Senate
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ISBN: 9781676359357
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Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Comprehensive immigration reform: examining the need for a guest worker program: hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session. July 5, 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985003583
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Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Comprehensive immigration reform : examining the need for a guest worker program : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session. July 5, 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Author: Jennifer J. Lee
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Languages : en
Pages : 59

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With the vow to protect U.S. jobs by cracking down on immigration, the current federal anti-immigrant agenda appears to limit any opportunities for comprehensive immigration reform. To the extent that such an agenda interferes with their low-wage immigrant workforces, many employers will likely turn to the expansion of guest worker programs as a way to obtain immigrant workers within a controlled migration program. The justification offered for such programs is that low-wage foreign guest workers are an easy way to fill “bad jobs” that no U.S. workers want. This Article challenges this commonly accepted narrative and explores how such programs create a cycle that fuels both U.S. worker shortages and the necessity for guest workers. In so doing, it demonstrates that guest worker programs are harmful to all low-wage workers.Scholars have amply criticized guest worker programs because they impair the rights of guest workers and contravene liberal egalitarian principles of social membership. These criticisms about how foreign workers are treated on U.S. soil, however, have been insufficient to tip the balance against these programs. What is missing from this debate is an attempt to understand why guest worker programs persist despite their many flaws. The programs' legal framework broadly delegates power to employers to create U.S. worker shortages and to demand highly productive and compliant guest workers in the alternative. Cultural narratives operate to mask this reality by tying these trends to cultural explanations about low-wage workers. Together they create a climate that is favorable to guest worker programs.This Article's close examination of these problems exposes why guest worker programs should not be a ready solution for immigration reform. It suggests a new approach to challenging such programs by broadening the lens to consider the plight of the U.S. worker. My purpose is not to pit U.S. workers against guest workers, but rather to offer a viewpoint that might connect normally disparate groups in unified opposition to guest worker programs. The U.S. worker can help shift the legal and social norms surrounding such programs by revealing how the fate of all low-wage workers is interconnected with government-enabled degradation of low-wage jobs. This approach thus suggests new advocacy strategies to eliminate guest worker programs in their current format in order to protect the dignity of all low-wage workers.

Author: Dorothy Hill
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Languages : en
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The creation of a large-scale unskilled guest worker program has been a prominent element of comprehensive immigration reform proposals in recent years. This year it was featured as one of the “four pillars” of a reform framework endorsed by the Obama Administration. The principal ills that are cited as justifying immigration reform include the deterioration of border security, the violence associated with human smuggling, and the widespread mistreatment of unauthorized immigrants. Many believe that a large-scale guest worker program will help to resolve these problems by providing a lawful channel to divert the flow of unauthorized workers. This article argues that such faith defies the evidence. Namely, a guest worker program will not quell the flow of unauthorized workers or secure the border, and will inevitably be accompanied by exploitation and abuse of guest workers, among other problems, even if it includes greater worker protections than existing programs. This article reaches these conclusions by examining past and present federal unskilled guest worker programs, as well as the guest worker program run by the Northern Mariana Islands, a Commonwealth of the United States. The Northern Marianas' guest worker program had in place many of the worker safeguards proposed by recent reform bills, and yet it, like all federal programs to date, contributed to widespread worker exploitation, depressed wages, predatory employment practices, a tremendous backlog of labor cases, and a high incidence of human trafficking. The Northern Marianas example illustrates that even a “worker friendly” guest worker program will not solve the ills associated with unauthorized immigration, but, rather, will serve to perpetuate them with the aid of state apparatus.