Sentences with phrase «migrants in search of work»

They were «conscripted prostitutes» to the colonial military in World War II; they were forced laborers in the military industries of Imperial Japan; they were forced migrants in search of work for survival.

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As the work of my Brookings colleague William Frey shows, immigrants are migrants within the U. S., too, moving on from traditional immigrant cities — New York and Los Angeles — to other towns and cities in search of a better future.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has claimed almost all European leaders privately back Britain's push to end migrants «popping» between countries in search of higher benefits.
His previous works include «Kiss of Love 2009», an installation produced from various paraphenalia that resulted from exchanging his clothes with homeless people, and «Drobne / 2010 Small Change», which through the use of a British penny, focused on the circumstances of Polish migrant workers in London and a place known as the Polish Wailing Wall where they go to search for jobs (often illegal and poorly paid).
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