migrant labor
Mobile seasonal workers
Migrant labor is work performed by people who move from place to place following employment opportunities, especially seasonal agricultural work.
The term encompasses both domestic workers who follow harvests across regions and international workers who cross borders for jobs unavailable at home.
Migrant labor built the railroads and picks the produce.
The phrase often implies precarious conditions—low wages, temporary housing, limited legal protections.
- seasonal workJobs tied to cycles
- harvest timeSeason of collecting crops
- work permitsDocuments authorizing legal employment
- work visaAuthorization for foreign employment
- remittancesPayments sent abroad
fair wages · border crossing · family separation · employment contracts · guest workers · coyote · minimum wage laws · cheap · wage disparity · sending · undocumented · backbreaking · farmworker · contractor · hiring hall · cash in hand · journey · border
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, employee, profession
- laborwork, workers, hard work, employment, effort
- migrationrefugees, immigrant, refugee, asylum seekers, displaced persons
- Apartheidapartheid, pass laws, Group Areas Act, passbook, passbooks
- labor lawlabour law, worker rights, bargaining rights, employment law, work contracts
- foreign workoverseas job, work permit, work visa, foreign assignment, overseas posting
migrant laborpermanent employment
Ongoing work with no termination date
union labor · civil service · lifetime employment · unionized labor
migrant laborprofessional class
Educated, licensed career holders
management · white-collar workers · organized labor · skilled trades · landed gentry
labor, laborer, migrate, migration, migrant, laborers, immigration, migratory, emigrate