Talk:Foreign worker

message: The article says, "Foreign workers are distinguished from expatriates in that they have not eschewed citizenship of their nation of origin." But expatriates usually don't "eschew citizenship" of their nation of origin, either. - dcljr (talk) 22:07, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The attemt to agregate "guest worker" with ever poor unfortunate in the universe is duely noted and it ain't gonna fly.  Migrants _are_ typically moving to survive while "foreign workers" in large part are not.  That may be a USA centric statement, but the words 'migrant worker' in the USA are much more linked to hobo's and farm workers from Oklahoma and, yes, farmworkers from So. of the
Texas border.  We do not speak of H1B's as being in the USA as "migrants" and certainly we do
not refer to green card holders as migrants.--The Trucker 19:40, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hobos aren't globtrotters

message: Here in the US, I have never heard the term "guest worker," used to describe anyone here illegally.  On the contrary, it is the term used to distinguish legal from illegal temporary foreign workers in the US.  For example, participants in the Bracero program, which operated in the US from the 1940s to the 1960s, were called guest workers.  Again, in the current debate, the proposal for legal temporary workers is referred to as a guest worker program.  Is there any nation where illegal residents are referred to as guest workers?Plazak 19:54, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition of "Guest worker"

message: RE: "Current estimates of the total number of international foreign workers stand at about 25 million". a source is needed for this. 
Labor Mobility and the Global Economy:
Should the World Trade Organization Set Migration Policy?
Page 4 (Adobe reader pg12)
http://www.afsc.org/trade-matters/issues/LaborMobility.pdf
(Document has zero references to search term "copyright")
"Worldwide, the rate of migration grew at 6% a year during
the 1990s, a rate faster than population growth as
a whole. There are currently about 200 million people
living outside their countries of birth.5 There are
more than 86 million economically active migrants in
the world, about 32 million of which are in developing
regions.6"
Reference:
5. Migration in an interconnected world: New directions for
action. Report of the Global Commission on International
Migration (GCIM), (October 2005) Switzerland: SRO-Kundig,
pg 83
6. Towards a fair deal for migrant workers in the global economy,
(2004) International Labor Conference, 92nd Session,
PDF version pg 7
hi,my fellow debaters  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.148.0.33 (talk) 04:17, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Citation

message: The latest additions to this page read like a press release from the local union involved in the dispute and lack any citations at all.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.160.157.14 (talk) 17:02, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Lack of Citations

message: The german word for Foreign worker Fremdarbeiter is a negative connoted term because it was used by Nazis, that was the reason why Western Germans called their foreign workers Gastarbeiter in English Guest workers and Eastern Germans gave their Foreign workers the name Contract workers.--John E. Yates (talk) 16:45, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The german word for Foreign worker Fremdarbeiter is a negative connoted term 

message: See :Wikidata:Wikidata:Interwiki_conflicts/Unresolved/2018#foreign_worker_(Q10512400)/gastarbeiter_(Q644903). Quercus solaris (talk) 16:08, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikidata ontologic problem whereby no German Wikipedia article can be linked in Languages nav pane here