Migrant Worker (Noun)
Meaning
A worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- As the economy changed, more people became migrant workers, traveling from city to city to find seasonal work on farms and in factories.
- During the Great Depression, migrant workers often lived in poor conditions, traveling from one place to another in search of jobs that might help them make ends meet.
- After college, Alex spent several years as a migrant worker, teaching English abroad in countries such as South Korea, Spain, and Australia.
- A documentary was made to expose the exploitation of migrant workers on building sites, where workers from overseas often suffered terrible living and working conditions.
- From 1960s onwards, Mexico started supplying more and more migrant workers to United States in form of cheap labor mainly on the fields, plantations, mines, constructions, as they accepted fewer basic minimum conditions in pay as wages