Transnational labour migration can be a win-win-win for all only if you look at it from different perspectives because what you look at from one parties’ point of view may be beneficial to them but infringe on another parties’ interest. In the perspective of migrants we think that they are benefiting from labour migration because they are not stateless, they have rights, a job and they are being paid, however all of the benefits comes at the cost of human rights abuse. The key to obtain a better quality of life is through self-sacrifice, basic income and freedom of speech.
There are different types of migrants, nomads who have no fixed home, circulants who leave home in hopes of trying to find a job where they obtain experience and income and who plan to return home and then there are refugees who have been forced to leave their home and reside elsewhere but are not registered (Standing,154).
Transnational labour migration produces a “win-win-win” scenario because it allows migrant workers to work for a low wage, which helps them obtain money for remittance to better their lives, while at the same time companies benefit because they are paying less money to the migrants for the same job a local could do but at a higher wage. According to Binford, currently 65-70 percent of migrant workers in Canada are Mexican and …show more content…
However there were criticisms about SAWP, which included similar issues to the Bracero contract according to scholars. The reason why the Mexicans did not complain of the issues in the SWAP is because they rely on the “dual frame of reference (Binford, 46).” Dual frame of reference means that Mexicans look at the type of work, working conditions and wage in comparison to what it would be in Mexico. In most circumstance it is and therefore they work extra hard to please their employers in order to remain in the
There are different types of migrants, nomads who have no fixed home, circulants who leave home in hopes of trying to find a job where they obtain experience and income and who plan to return home and then there are refugees who have been forced to leave their home and reside elsewhere but are not registered (Standing,154).
Transnational labour migration produces a “win-win-win” scenario because it allows migrant workers to work for a low wage, which helps them obtain money for remittance to better their lives, while at the same time companies benefit because they are paying less money to the migrants for the same job a local could do but at a higher wage. According to Binford, currently 65-70 percent of migrant workers in Canada are Mexican and …show more content…
However there were criticisms about SAWP, which included similar issues to the Bracero contract according to scholars. The reason why the Mexicans did not complain of the issues in the SWAP is because they rely on the “dual frame of reference (Binford, 46).” Dual frame of reference means that Mexicans look at the type of work, working conditions and wage in comparison to what it would be in Mexico. In most circumstance it is and therefore they work extra hard to please their employers in order to remain in the