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Chinese City Publicly Shames Migrant Workers Who Protested Unpaid Wages
- 1stop 11y agoI think China is a good reminder that the word "migrant" is just newspeak, most countries use it to refer to people fromother countries, China use it for people from another city...
- verroq 11y agoMigrant workers, not migrant refugees. These are people who comes from poor rural communities in search of better jobs and future, not opportunistic economic migrants who come to take advantage of an European welfare state. Also note that without a hukou they receive limited education and government services. This prevents them from settling in the cities they work in.
- hutzlibu 11y agoHave you ever actually spoken to one of those "opportunistic economic migrants" who apparently don't like the bad economic situation of places like syria, anymore?
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- fucking_tragedy 11y agoHow do you sort out people who comes from poor rural communities in search of better jobs and future from the opportunistic economic migrants who come to take advantage of an European welfare state? Religion? Ethnicity? Country of origin?
- mchaver 11y agoThere are also certain obstacles related to internal migration in Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement#Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement#Russia
- witty_username 11y agoHere in India people use the word "migrant" for people who come from other parts of country. Perhaps this is the case in large countries.
- yarou 11y agoWhich part of India are you from? I've never heard the term "migrant" to describe people from other states within India.
- teeboy 11y agoIn many states of India, you will be called an immigrant, not just migrant. Generally, the choicest of abuses are reserved for Bihari migrants though. Not so for educated migrants for Kerala, for example. Most Indian states have cultural identities stronger than even some European nation states and hence the conflict with the other.
- brianwawok 11y agoNot in the US. From Alaska? Maybe rough around the edges but citizen not migrant.
- nwjtkjn 11y agoYeah, I don't even think most people in the US would use the word migrant to talk about someone from Canada. When I hear "migrant worker", the image in my head is agricultural workers coming from Mexico.
- icebraining 11y agoI'm pretty sure China uses some Chinese word instead. And at least around here (European country), "migration" and "migrants" are also used when referring to people moving between regions inside the same country.
- zhte415 11y ago外地 (wai di)- from outside places/soil. Not nationality bound, more a term for migrant workers 'not being from around here'. But using this term suggests some comfort or familiarity with the local place. Otherwise, just state origin. 本地 (ben di)- from local / basic soil. Often used as a badge of pride. 民工 (min gong)- common term for migrant worker in China. Interesting decomposition of the work - 民 (min) meaning a person, or member of the people. 工 (gong) meaning work (with one's hands, literal). This would be the closest match for a European moving country in seek of wage.
- douche 11y agoNot just China - in the Great Depression, the Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl were "migrant" workers
- toxiczone 11y agoMaybe you're an emigrant. Everyone looks at you as an immigrant doing migrant work...
- arbuge 11y agoKarma comes around. With all the posts about this on HN, Reddit, and elsewhere, one could observe that the Chinese city itself is now being shamed publicly also.
- est 11y agochinese here, just few "as is" info 1. strange to see low quality politics news on frontpage 2. the public shaming is backed by the company whos boss was chief of security of high rank national leader 3. its not migrant worker. LangZhong where the story happened is a 99th tier town and sichaun province as a whole is a cheap labor source. Those workers are likely local. 4. those unpaid workers literally dragged a police officer to city hall as hostage asking for unpaid wage. Please be aware its not the government who owns these worker money. 5. unpaid peasant workers can be taken advantage of in china. e.g. your construction contractor finishes a low quality job, you are unwilling to pay 100%, contractor directly asks swarm of peasant workers to protest 7x24 and threaten you in various means until you pay up. why govn't involed in all this? obviously commies has above the law regulation that peasant workers wage has a higher priority than everyone else, it's regarded as a highly politically correct thing to do. And most impirtantly, courts worked like shit in chinar.