Guest worker

Guest workers are people brought into a country to work in different industries.

They are used to fill a shortage in labour that most often cannot be done locally. Guest workers often do not have the same rights as normal workers. In some countries, guest workers are not allowed to stay for a long period of time. In Germany, many guest workers are from Turkey. Turkish guest workers have formed their own communities in the German cities in which they live. Turkish guest workers have been in Germany since the 1950s.

Many Koreans in Japan came as guest workers in the early 20th century and in Arab countries late in the late 20th century.

Related pages
 Migrant worker

Other websites 

Foreign workers in Malaysia  - News update
The PBS newsmagazine NOW  focuses on America's "Guest Workers" including interviews with actual guest workers who work in Montana's forests
Burma Migrant Worker Issues
Migrant labor activism in New York City from Dollars & Sense magazine
Migrant Workers Television(MWTV) in Seoul Korea 
December 18 vzw - International Advocacy and Resource Center on Migrant Workers Rights  
Migrante International
No One is Illegal
Global Culture: essay on migrant workers 
Migrant Farmworkers and Their Children 

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