1. Migrant workers Seminarfach EN72 Marina Zielke & Mi Tran

2. Structure • Migrant worker • Definition • National perspectives (Europe, Asia, America) • Views on migrant workers • Migrant workers in Asia • Reasons for migration • Treatment • Case study: Olympic Games 2008 • Political management • Migrant workers in America • American view on Asian migrant workers • Conclusion • Sources

3. Definition • different official meanings and connotations • someone who migrates within a country in search of work • different national views on the term “migrant workers“

4. National Perspectives • Europe: open borders for European migrant workers allow them to work in other EU countries • America: reference to someone who regularly works away from home • doing manual labour for low wages e.g. field workers • immigrants without a valid work visa • seasonal workers • Asia – China: workers from poor regions who work in industrialized areas and sent their pay back home to their families

5. Views on migrant workers • conservative politicians (industrial countries): legal migrant who is a lawbreaker  one-way ticket home • immigration advocates: fundament of globalized economy • politicial leaders of developing countries: heroes because of financial supporting of their families back home

6. globalization environmental disaster unemployment living conditions war after-effects religious or political persecution Migrant workers in Asiareasons for migration

7. Treatment of migrant workers ·"If my employers went out, they locked the door from the outside and took the key." • bad working conditions • low wages • physical and sexual abuse • violation of human rights • no health insurance • “slavery“  in our cases

8. Working Conditions

9. Case study: Olympic Games 2008 “Olympic projects built with "the blood" of migrant workers“ • approximately 5,300 migrant workers (90%) • dangerous working conditions • bad housing condutions • exploitation by employers • no access to medical treatment • often go unpaid • are not registered as residents of Beijing

10. China Is Getting Ready

12. Political regulations

13. Asian Migrant workers in America The question is no longer, “How do people become Americans?” but rather “How has Americabecome its people?” ...Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore... Emma Lazarus’

14. the United States – ”a nation of immigrants” • first immigration of Asians dates back to the 18th century • never made up more than 5% of the entire immigration • the detention centerat Angel Islandwas used for decades to interrogate Chinese immigrants • race-conscious immigration and naturalization policies • unequal laws

15. no other immigrant group had to endure a consistent denial of citizenship • reasons for discriminatory treatment are grounded in racist beliefs of white European supremacy • stereotypes of Asians - “yellow peril” image • Asians and Asian Americans are perceived as foreigners, forever aliens

16. Pro: financial support of families experiences of working in a new country release of the own country better payments economical benefit Contra: working and living conditions exploitation discrimination unequal laws Conclusion  Improvements on migrant rights and treatment

17. Sources • http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2004/08/31/asias-migrant-workers-need-better-protection • http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=11751 • http://asjournal.zusas.uni-halle.de/15 • http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/m_mwc_p1.htm • http://www.hrw.org/de/news/2008/03/11/china-ausbeutung-von-wanderarbeitern-peking • http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=11751 Pictures: • http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-19973.html#backToArticle=470899 • http://larevolucioncreativa.blogspot.com/2007/10/drerchos-humanos-olmpicos.html • http://marionluettig.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/entstehunggeschichte-des-logos-fur-die-olympischen-spiele/