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Close to Slavery: Guest Worker Programs in the United States

Document number
1866
Date
undated
Title
Close to Slavery: Guest Worker Programs in the United States
Author/publisher
Southern Poverty Law Center
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
Summary
The H-2 guestworker system also can be viewed as a modern-day system of indentured servitude. But unlike European indentured servants of old, today's guestworkers have no prospect of becoming U.S. citizens
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