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Describes their labor conditions, stressing that the intensity of the current debate is disproportionate to the number of foreign workers in the labor force.

This paper explores the experiences of Temporary Foreign Workers in health care in Alberta by examining a cohort of internationally-educated nurses hired to alleviate shortages. In particular it evaluates the assessment of foreign credentials and processes that followed. Drawing on social closure theories, we look at the experiences of foreign workers whose employment and residency status are extremely precarious. We suggest the use of temporary workers to address 'short term' labour demand has implications for the workers themselves as well as for larger political, social and economic contexts.

This article presents the basic characteristics of the foreign workers recruiting policy in Japan, which consists on barring entry to unskilled workers, and confronts it with the actual tolerance for a large number of illegal unskilled workers. After a historical overview of the reasons for the current policy, the article examines elements which reveal that a seclusionist policy is based on mistaken assumptions and reviews policy options to deal with the issue of illegal migration.

As recruitment of overseas social workers rises, what must be considered when employing foreign nationals?

This is a detailed study of the extent to which an increased influx of foreign workers is a threat to law and order in the context of the data-generating process of police statistics and the media coverage of "crimes" committed by foreigners. It shows that a general mood in which foreign workers are viewed as potential danger to Japanese society "protects" the criminalization of foreign "illegal" migrant workers

Introduction -- Labor migration in Israel: theoretical context -- The evolution of government policies and the migrant labor employment system -- Employment practices: the system of placement agencies -- Living and working as non-Israelis: Filipino caregivers -- Thai agricultural workers -- Rumanian construction workers -- Illegal labor migrants: life and work on the run -- Deportation -- The rhythm of policy and the employment system -- Labor migration policies and national identity

This paper discusses capital-assisted and non-capital-assisted migration to Taiwan. Despite a yearly average of US$915 million in direct foreign investment (DFI) in Taiwan in the 1980s, the number of professional transient migrants in Taiwan is not large, totaling only 960 persons in 1988. As sources of both DFI and capital-assisted migration, Japan ranked highest, followed by the United States and Europe. Foreign professionals sent by transnational corporations are likely to be found in capital and technology intensive industries, as well as trade and the services. Among non-capital-assisted migrants, American English teachers are highlighted with results of a case study on their characteristics, work experience and adjustment.