1800s‚ the rise of the Industrial Revolution and the Gilded Age provided the means and demands for more work and more workers. Due to government actions‚ immigrations‚ labor unions and technological changes‚ the industry expanded in growth. The abundance of natural resources‚ an increase in labor supply and the role of government led to the high demands for more work and workers. However‚ as immigration helped by having a cheap‚ abundant labor source for businesses to use‚ and as the creation of
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How does your poem and the related text material convey the changing attitudes of the migrant experience in Australia in the 20th and 21st Centuries? Today Australia is known as a multicultural society even though for the past few centuries migration and immigrants have been a sensitive topic in the Australian politics. Throughout the development of the Australian society many laws and policies and been put and taken out of actions to create the country that Australians live in today. Originally
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A migrant becomes an Australian when they accept the Australian way of life. By law they are free to live the way they please and follow what religion they want‚ but an Australian is someone who takes pride of their flag‚ pride of their country and pride in what being Australian really means.position You call Australia home with all the privileges. Anybody who wants to become an Australian citizen needs to make a formal application‚ and the time it takes for the process. Usually it takes between
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Due to the increase of migration in recent years‚ ethnolects have become especially prevalent in Australian society. The Lebanese culture is especially apparent in Sydney’s CBD and this is manifested in the language of teenagers‚ as well as their migrant parents. An ethnolect is a variation of language that is associated with another ethnicity or culture. The need for a cultural identity in a foreign society often gives rise to ethnolects. This desire for an identity possibly stems from the discrimination
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LOW WAGE WORK What most Americans don’t know is that many of the workers keeping our nation pulsating are paid low wages‚ earning barely enough to afford essentials like food‚ health care‚ utilities and rent. Most of these low-wage contract workers are clustered in sectors and industries like apparel manufacturing‚ retail trade‚ basic construction‚ facilities support‚ security services‚ and education. There are over forty million jobs in the United States and one out of three pays their employees
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CONCLUSION As we see by analyzing Michel Foucault’s chapter‚ Panopticism‚ and Dominique Moran’s book‚ Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention‚ prison architecture has evolved from confining those who were considered abnormal because they violated the law to mentally impacting prisoners by making them paranoid‚ scared‚ and frustrated. Initially‚ prisons were visible to the public because they were built in the center of the city to allow society to see what they
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achieves it by the exploitation of their workers. While these workers continue to slave away in harsh conditions and face physical costs‚ their plight remains unknown by many consumers which benefit from their hardships. Not only is the treatment of Chinese workers unethical‚ but it is also imperative that consumer and foreign corporations alike understand the roles they play in perpetuating these conditions. Who belongs to the group of Chinese workers that continually face unbearable hardships
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Sexual Abuses of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong “I never think about myself. I don’t have a choice.” said Cherry Narag‚ a Filipino domestic worker in Hong Kong. According to Hong Kong population statistics‚ there are more than 200‚000 foreign domestic workers (235‚ 274 as of December 2012) who live and work in Hong Kong. Majority of them came from Indonesia‚ Philippines and Thailand‚ they are very young (some even falsify their age just to come to work)‚ and often face a language barrier
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increasing numbers of foreign workers. As of December 2008‚ there were 2.06 million foreign workers in Malaysia‚ which relies heavily on them to help out in the construction and plantation sectors. Most of the workers are sourced from Indonesia‚ India‚ Bangladesh and Nepal. Despite the economic downturn and rising retrenchment in Malaysia‚ Bangladeshi workers were still in demand as they were hardworking‚ efficient‚ obedient‚ easy to train and did not demand a high salary. Workers were known to be able
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Literature review: To explore the seriousness of maid abuse‚ the problems faced by domestic workers‚ as well as the effectiveness of governmental policies Introduction The problem of maid abuse has been around for a long time‚ and is no longer new to us. There have been several cases of extreme maid abuse shown in the news through the years. The debate has been further sparked up by the case of Ng Hua Chye‚ a 47-year-old male tour guide‚ who was sentenced to more than 18 years ’ jail and 12
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