The Asian economic crisis dramatically influenced the context in which a growing number of international migrants had begun to spread from poorer to more industrialised countries in East Asia, accompanying the export and FDI booms of the 1990s. Important uncertainties included the impact on clandestine migrant workers, replacement of migrants by local workers and countervailing pressures for in...

OBJECTIVE A majority of work immigrants from the Philippines came to Israel to fill positions involving personal and nursing care. Most of them were in Israel during the Second Lebanon War, the Cast Lead operation, and the Protective Edge Operation. These migrant care workers experienced these events no differently than did the Israeli population. The goal of this study was to examine the conne...

fied as a factor in the spread of HIV throughout southern Africa. Today, migrant workers remain a key population to target for HIV prevention efforts not only because of their role in its transmission, but also because of their own vulnerability to the disease as a result of high-risk sexual behavior.1 In South Africa, mine workers comprise a large number of the migrant workers who fall into th...

During the 1970s and 1980s, the broad outlines of a picture of migrant women workers' experiences were delineated in the Australian literature (see Martin 1984 and 1986). After describing this picture, this chapter will review the Australian literature on non-English speaking (NES) migrant women workers in more detail, focusing particularly on research findings that refer to newly arrived women...

A considerable number of Hispanic agricultural workers come to Northwest Michigan during the summer every year to harvest fruit and vegetable crops. The Department of Community Dentistry of The University of Michigan School of Dentistry helps provide dental services for these migrant workers and their families. Some 203 five-to-14-year-old children of migrant farm workers were examined for cari...

BACKGROUND Despite a large body of evidence globally demonstrating that the criminalization of sex workers increases HIV/STI risks, we know far less about the impact of criminalization and policing of managers and in-call establishments on HIV/STI prevention among sex workers, and even less so among migrant sex workers. METHODS Analysis draws on ethnographic fieldwork and 46 qualitative inter...

over Population movement has long been identified as a factor in the spread of HIV throughout southern Africa. Today, migrant workers remain a key population to target for HIV prevention efforts not only because of their role in its transmission, but also because of their own vulnerability to the disease as a result of high-risk sexual behavior.1 In South Africa, mine workers comprise a large n...

BACKGROUND China is facing a critical challenge of rapid and widespread human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) increase. Rural-to-urban migration plays a crucial role in shifting the HIV/sexual transmitted infection (STI) epidemic. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of sexual behaviors and the correlates among the early adolescents of mi...

BACKGROUND Migrant women engaged in precarious employment, such as sex work, frequently face pronounced social isolation alongside other barriers to health and human rights. Although peer support has been identified as a critical HIV and violence prevention intervention for sex workers, little is known about access to peer support or its role in shaping health and social outcomes for migrant se...