migrant worker
Traveling harvest hand
A migrant worker is someone who moves from place to place for employment, typically following seasonal work like harvesting crops.
The term implies temporary or cyclical relocation rather than permanent settlement: Migrant workers pick strawberries in California each summer.
It often carries connotations of difficult conditions, low wages, and limited legal protections.
Agricultural employee
- harvesterCrop-collecting machine
- pickerOne who gathers
- fieldworkerOne who gathers data outdoors
- constructionProcess of building something
factory · domestic · seasonal · manual · blue-collar · crew · meatpacking · agriculture
Payments sent abroad
- wagesPayment for work
- employmentPaid occupation status
- livelihoodMeans of earning income
- underemploymentInsufficient use of labor capacity
informal · workforce · contribution · recruitment · labor market · money transfer · receiving country · poverty
State of being apart
- familyRelated people together
- remittanceFunds sent elsewhere
- homesicknessLonging for one's dwelling
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
community · dormitory · housing · discrimination · isolation · adaptation · integration · support network
Limited in duration
- seasonalRecurring at fixed intervals
- itinerantMoving for work
- circularForming a closed curve
- relocationPermanent change of residence
displacement · crossing · journey · transit · return · rotation · contract period · sojourn
Travel authorization stamp
- permitOfficial written authorization
- documentationWritten proof or instructions
- undocumentedNot officially recorded
- quotaFixed assigned amount
sponsorship · regularization · deportation · detention · amnesty · status · papers · work authorization
farmhand
Agricultural employee
- harvesterCrop-collecting machine
- pickerOne who gathers
- fieldworkerOne who gathers data outdoors
construction · factory · domestic · seasonal · manual · blue-collar · crew · meatpacking · agriculture · plantation
remittances
Payments sent abroad
- wagesPayment for work
- employmentPaid occupation status
- livelihoodMeans of earning income
underemployment · informal · workforce · contribution · recruitment · labor market · money transfer · receiving country · poverty · opportunity
separation
State of being apart
- familyRelated people together
- remittanceFunds sent elsewhere
- homesicknessLonging for one's dwelling
diaspora · community · dormitory · housing · discrimination · isolation · adaptation · integration · support network · sacrifice
temporary
Limited in duration
relocation · displacement · crossing · journey · transit · return · rotation · contract period · sojourn · departure
visa
Travel authorization stamp
- permitOfficial written authorization
- documentationWritten proof or instructions
- undocumentedNot officially recorded
quota · sponsorship · regularization · deportation · detention · amnesty · status · papers · work authorization · illegal
- rural workerspeasant, farm laborer, farmhand, farmworker, field hand
- occupationsdoctor, teacher, baker, lawyer, nurse
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- laborlabor, labor union, work, labor force, laborers
- migrationrefugees, migrants, refugee, asylum seekers, displaced persons
- casual workersday laborer, temp, freelancer, hired hand, pieceworker
migrant workerpermanent resident
One who stays indefinitely
long-term resident · homesteader · community member · domestic worker
migrant workertenured professor
Faculty with permanent appointment
civil servant · union worker · company man · employer · business owner
worker, immigrant, migrate, migration, migrant, immigration, migratory, migrating, emigration