One big new player is the Gulf, which has sucked in migrant workers since the oil boom.
"Authorities Predict Increase in Migrant Flow to Kern Soon, " read the headline in the August 7 edition of the Bakersfield Californian.
With the population in India increasingly migrant in nature, this payment infrastructure will enable a large populace to participate in the financial sector, opening new opportunities for growth.
He grew up in a migrant farming family and picked vegetables and fruits in California when he wasn't in school.
Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration photography project, its photographers shot everything from small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest and coal-mining communities in Appalachia to African-Americans in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City and migrant farm workers in Colorado.
He didn't have to travel far from his home in Minneapolis to find a camp where Hispanic women, migrant workers in food-processing plants, have temporary quarters.
Dory was assigned to work on a waste-management project in a Dominican migrant farm worker community.
Money-transfer companies are reporting a dramatic fall in remittances by migrant communities.
Many factory workers in Guangdong are migrant labourers from other regions of China who spend their entire lives on the factory premises, which include dormitories and cafeterias.
According to a recent estimate, one in three Beijingers is a migrant worker and many are employed in service industries.
In addition, rising migrant wages and higher farm-gate prices have led to a 13.7 percent increase in real rural incomes and 16.8 percent increase in rural retail sales during the first half of 2011, CLSA says.
"People coming here to work in factories don't have the time or the money for shopping or the rollercoaster, " said a migrant worker in his 20s, surnamed Xiao, who works at the mall.
Shanghai claims last year to have become the first city in China to provide free education for all migrant children, mostly in state-run schools, with some in subsidised private ones.
In the same year she starred in the anti-apartheid drama-documentary Come back, Africa, about the lives of migrant workers living in Johannesburg's townships.
But all 300 of them have one thing in common: they are children of migrant workers who have come to Beijing in search of a better life.
The state has had to build roads to remote migrant outposts in the jungle.
"Coverage is extended to all migrant workers in Shanghai, " Mr. Han told a press briefing.
Most politicians in Lincolnshire believe that migrant workers have had a positive effect on the county's economy.
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According to 2009 figures from the State Statistics Bureau there were almost 230 million migrant workers in China.
Migrant workers in the United States fare even better than those in India.
Migrant work in Russia is a vital source of income for many nationals from Tajikistan, the poorest former Soviet Republic.
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Local authorities should ensure the involvement of migrant communities in urban decision-making processes by establishing channels for representation and participation.
Earlier Indonesia's cabinet met to discuss the need for greater protection of the country's migrant workers in the Middle East.
Schools, and the education they provide, are the preferred vehicle to assist migrant children in the processes of social and cultural integration.
The plight of migrant workers in Thailand is worsened by the unregistered and hence illegal status of at least half of them.
While the number of migrant workers in China rose 3.9% last year, manufacturers face stiff competition from construction, mining and other industries for staff.
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Of those, 27 were non-Saudis -- and most of the foreigners executed in recent years were migrant workers from developing countries, the group said.
Eni Lestari is the chairwoman of the Association of the Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong, and has lived in the city for 12 years.
Migrant workers in the Gulf states and elsewhere use this trust-based system to send billions of dollars back home, winning on both efficiency and cost.
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In October, another migrant, a Californian named Timothy Treadwell, and his companion were killed and eaten by brown bears, animals for which Treadwell claimed to have a special affinity.
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