labor migration
Employment-driven population movement
Labor migration is the movement of people from one place to another for work.
It may be seasonal, as with agricultural workers following harvests, or permanent relocation to where jobs are more plentiful.
The term typically describes movement across borders: Labor migration from Central America has increased.
Domestic movement is usually called labor mobility instead.
- remittancesPayments sent abroad
- work permitsDocuments authorizing legal employment
- green cardU.S. residency document
- wage disparityUnequal compensation for work
- emigrationLeaving homeland permanently
diaspora · worker exploitation · family separation · wage theft · ethnic enclaves · economic migrants · better life · border crossing · bilateral agreements · poverty alleviation · recruitment agencies · international treaties · seasonal work · visa · language barriers · smuggler · sweatshop · displacement
- laborwork, laborers, workers, hard work, employment
- migrationimmigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration, migrants
- labor lawlabour law, worker rights, bargaining rights, employment law, work contracts
- emigrationemigrant, emigration, economic migrants, emigre, political refugees
- foreign workoverseas job, work permit, work visa, foreign assignment, overseas posting
- Indian DiasporaGujaratis, Punjabis, Sikhs, expatriates, expats
labor migrationsedentarism
Habitual physical inactivity
staying put · rootedness · immobility · homesteading · settledness
labor migrationtourism
Leisure travel sector
leisure travel · asylum seeking · refugee flight · forced displacement · family reunification
labor migrationcapital flight
Rapid outflow of investments
outsourcing · remote work · telecommuting · unemployment · retirement