undocumented worker
Unauthorized foreign employee
A person employed without legal authorization to work in the country—typically someone who entered without inspection or overstayed a visa.
The term is preferred in neutral contexts over "illegal alien" or "illegal immigrant," which critics consider dehumanizing.
Undocumented workers make up a significant portion of the agricultural workforce.
- illegalForbidden by statute
- detentionTemporary official holding
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- family separationKin kept apart
- coyoteWild North American canid
border · wage theft · false papers · checkpoint · naturalization · green card lottery · illegal immigrant · DREAM Act · path to citizenship · illegal immigration · identity theft · labor exploitation · day laborer · under the table · cash in hand · sanctuary cities · work permit · human dignity
- labor migrationlabor migration, work permit, work visa, immigrant labor, labor markets
- illegal migrantsillegal alien
undocumented workerlegal immigrant
Approved foreign settler
visa holder · work permit holder · green card holder · legal resident · documented immigrant
undocumented workercitizen
Legal national member
national · naturalized citizen · domestic worker · countryman · permanent resident
undocumented, worker, document, documented, documentation, documents, documenting, worked, working