MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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A worker who moved because he/she wants to.
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A worker who moves from place to place to do seasonal work.
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A civilian who leaves the country.
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When birds fly south.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines migrant labour as casual and unskilled workers who move about systematically from one region to another offering their services on a temporary, usually seasonal basis (68).
Detailed explanation-2: -Migrant. While there is no formal legal definition of an international migrant, most experts agree that an international migrant is someone who changes his or her country of usual residence, irrespective of the reason for migration or legal status.
Detailed explanation-3: -Types of labour migration: Skilled, semi-skilled and low-skilled workers.
Detailed explanation-4: -The migrant labour system was an historical system, manipulated by capitalist, colonial and apartheid powers as a means of reconciling the conflicting needs for cheap labour in the mines and cities of “white” South Africa, with the desire to restrict black people to rural areas far away from the “white” cities.