And then more recently, the situation of children being separated. Migrant children from Central America being separated from their families I think shook the country again and made us confront difficult moral and ethical questionsabout the way we treat people, our neighbors who come mostly looking for protection in our country.
Vietnamese immigrant who had uh he was part of the the wave of Vietnamese IM migrant who moved to Sagal when uh when the in the early 60s mid-60s actuallyafter the the war started in osin and the French Vietnam like Sagal is a French
China as you may know and um through him I was able to see what the lives of Migrant workers are like um he basically worked 30 365 days a year um maybe wenthome every other year um when I was interning in his kitchen his his family
to my route into this material really was came through my interest in Indian migrants you know U Indian migrant workers who were the first you know the Kies but it was the Kies in fact it wastheir history which sort of led me into this odd history because one thing I discovered because curiously the history
to go after these members of criminals criminal organizations. Migrants and enforcement sources say tougher policing in Europe is helping todisrupt supply chains, possibly a factor driving some smugglers to put more
I want to become an architect. Migrants say there are increasing offers from smugglers to bring them to mainland Europe. If this means they can escapethe ordeal here in Ceuta, many might be taking the risk, even unaccompanied
unaccompanied minors, especially in situations like the one in Ceuta at this very moment, where a large number of migrants enter um the territory and where capacities to reallyum assist these minors and to do justice to their needs is not met by
And the land that was confiscated, that all the Southerners lost as a result of fighting and breaking from the union because it was all confiscated, Migrants who came to New York, immigrants, so are getting an education that is significantly more well-funded.
four years later you have 85,000 displaced refugees and migrants um so those are the same images but again is changing the way you tell the story and always kind of keeping itfresh and different um because I worked at a uh
and all that. And the interesting thing is he keeps pointing out that Austria is no longer safe, because in 2015, 90,000 migrants slash refugees were let into that tiny country, and they are rupturing the social contract.That sounds familiar? Right?
growing number of stateless children. Migrants having children abroad.The children are illegal because they're not legal in the country that they're in.
expected to provide a blueprint for oncology payment reform, OK? The migrant -- she can write a memoir about what it felt to see her father locked up, what it felt like to stop going to college, what it felt like, literally, to run circles around ICE to keep my father in this country.
Many migrants they leave their kids back in the village, their parents are back in the village, sometimes, --in the book there's one family--, where the wife is one city as a migrant , the husband's in another city as a migrant , and they have two daughters each with a different relative in a different village. This is very common that migrants , their families are very split apart.
You have first generation, second, third generation. Sometimes migrants , that's just a way of life. They've been here five, six generations.
But underneath that world were layers of formal and informal workers, of migrants . These migrants worked in large assembly factories, small Quonset huts, and even in their own kitchens, making the electronics that made those venture capitalists wealthy. And even though they are usually left out of the story of Silicon Valley, they are essential to its rise.
Nigeria, massive population growth, as with Kenya. So migrants are exceptional people.
So migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, pay an average of 9.81% when they send money home.
And then there's difficulties in terms of social conditions. Many migrants they leave their kids back in the village, their parents are back in the village, sometimes, --in the book there's one family--, where the wife is one city as a migrant , the husband's in another city as a migrant , and they have two daughters each with a different relative in a different village.
Everybody in China is entitled to free education for their children, to subsidized health care, but you're only entitled to those things in the location in which you are registered. For migrants when they leave where they're registered they come to the cities where they're not registered they often their kids are turned way from urban schools, they can't get healthcare, they can't buy property, they can't get legal protection.
As a teenager-- when he was a teenager, around the age I began defending him in the legal battle-- at that age, he had actually set off for Beirut to start becoming a migrant worker. And my dad is-- he picked up languages like a sponge.
becomes a statement about migrant workers and immigrants.
And the whole migrant crisis was playing out in the news.
Great. Thank you. So can you give us some context, as somebody who has lived, what it means to be a migrant worker? Who is a migrant worker? And how do they get here to the United States?
It's to regulate those laws that young people shouldn't be working that long. But a migrant is just somebody that moves from state to state, or maybe they're seasonal. They live here in Michigan, maybe they just pick during the season.
I couldn't read, I couldn't write. When you're a migrant worker, you leave. In October, you leave the school, and then you leave to go back home to Texas.
And again, there's so many things that I'm sure I'm missing. If you're a migrant , you're a migrant .
But his parents were migrant workers.
But there was a migrant workers camp there that had 198 acres.
There's this migrant mother image of her and her child.
These were largely migrant working men and in my fantasies, they look like this.
And the migrant stories come back kind of resounding and echoing and they loom large in people's minds. And I think that has a lot to do with it.
these people are economic migrants .
Just yesterday, another 12-year-old girl came in. She said some other migrants from Morocco had been touching her inappropriately. She arrived extremely frightened and crying.
thousands of migrants living in the streets on the streets. The authorities
They Record migrants , people who come here from all over the world, and they go into this little cabin in which they record their story.
so we're migrants or refugees um and um I uh throughout my
And the migrants were Mexican migrants .
But in addition to that, migrants are really essential to building up China's rural areas as well. Because the money that migrants send back to the villages, in lots of places, really is the major portion of local income and so they're really responsible for raising rural China out of poverty as well.
And then also in terms of living conditions, so these City Villages are often built very haphazardly, a lot of safety hazards there. And also migrants they live in very small spaces. 50% of migrants will live in eight square meters or less, which is essentially a bed with a walkway around it.
And also migrants they live in very small spaces. 50% of migrants will live in eight square meters or less, which is essentially a bed with a walkway around it. It's very small living space.
They're having more and more difficulties getting people to migrate to the east, because a lot of migration happens from west to east, obviously, because of the income gap. to allow 10 million migrants to trade in their rural registration for an urban registration so they could become official city residents.
They're having more and more difficulties getting people to migrate to the east, because a lot of migration happens from west to east, obviously, because of the income gap. So those migrants are really sort of isolated from the larger society, so I didn't write about those, so I don't know so much about the conditions in factories.
immigrants or migrants um as of 2000 the per capita income in Watsonville was a
And we were able to help out migrant workers through Taco Bell and went on this whole truth tour.
He's since passed. The book is, in part, a eulogy for him. He's a working-class migrant in the post-colonial era. Writ large, that's where he falls in the narrative.
And she raised 10 lakhs for migrant workers.
And my research looks at migrant labor and human trafficking in Asia.
And so I was working with migrant hostesses in LA.
And again, there's so many things that I'm sure I'm missing. and being undocumented and understanding the migrant fields and understanding
Got offered a ride by a Bosnian migrant trucker who had a vehicle recovery-- big vehicle recovery