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- by Jonathan Unger
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- Sociology of Families, Contemporary China, Migrant workers

Reliable data on the health status of migrant seasonal workers in Europe is scarce. Access to public health care for this population depends on national regulations, and their legal status in host countries. In this manuscript we describe a case study of a salmonellosis outbreak that occurred in Norway, and highlight the difficulties encountered in applying control measures in a population of seasonal migrant farm workers. Surveillance and control of infectious diseases need to be supported by legislation which makes implementation of control measures possible. Efforts have been made to improve the rights for migrants in Europe with regard to healthcare, but seasonal migrant workers still remain largely outsiders where these measures are concerned. Special attention should be given to this disadvantaged group in terms of social rights and healthcare. Preparedness plans should be improved to deal with contagious pathogens involving the seasonal migrant population.

- by P. Aavitsland and +1
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- Global Health, Tropical Medicine, Agriculture, Treatment Outcome
- by Gabriella Cioce
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- Civil Society, Trade unions, Migrant workers, Organising

Communiqué de presse relations presse : Atlas des migrations en Méditerranée de l'antiquité à nous jours
Cet ouvrage propose un panorama original des migrations en Méditerranée depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours.
Plus de 70 spécialistes, historiens, géographes, anthropologues, politologues, se sont donné comme objectif de montrer comment les migrations ont façonné les sociétés et les cultures méditerranéennes au cours de l’histoire. Ils rendent accessibles grâce à des textes courts, des phénomènes complexes, en mettant en lumière leurs particularités ou leur banalité ou en remettant en perspective les conditions de leur émergence. En regard, des extraits de sources historiques et des illustrations permettent de saisir les espoirs, les inquiétudes, parfois les drames qui accompagnent les mobilités d’hommes et de femmes de tous horizons.
Les 200 cartes produites jouent sur les échelles de représentation et varient les angles d’approche thématique : de l’observation des mouvements dans un port aux mobilités qui sillonnent l’ensemble des rivages méditerranéens, jusqu’aux projections mondiales des diasporas méditerranéennes, ou les mutations d’une métropole cosmopolite sous l’effet des arrivées successives de migrants.
L’atlas se structure en trois parties composées chacune de chapitres au sein desquels se succèdent, après une introduction, des doubles- pages thématiques, laissant ainsi le choix d’une lecture continue ou fractionnée. Il évoque d’abord les structures qui encadrent, contrôlent ou accompagnent les migrations (routes, frontières, lieux d’accueil, cadres politiques et juridiques, puis les différents acteurs (marchands, travailleurs, esclaves, religieux, intellectuels ou artistes) avant de porter attention aux modalités de contacts entre les migrants et les sociétés d’accueil (invasions, colonisations, transferts, cosmopolitisme, xénophobie).
Cet atlas s’adresse à un lectorat qui cherche à mieux connaître et comprendre une question qui, sous les feux de l’actualité, suscite des discours aux formules lapidaires et parfois outrancières.
ISBN : 978-2-330-14501-9
Prix indicatif : 35.00€

- by Cedric Quertier
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- History, Geography, Contemporary History, Political Science

Few consumers, when they snack on hazelnuts or hazelnut chocolate bars, think of the steps that go into producing these treats, including who is involved or what share of the price they pay at the supermarket reaches the workers who toil under the summer sun to harvest the hazelnuts. As part of the project “Piloting the USDA Guidelines for Eliminating Child Labor and Forced Labor in the Hazelnut Supply Chain in Turkey,” the Fair Labor Association commissioned this study to find out how value is spread across the hazelnut supply chain, and the impact of the value distribution on workers’ wages in the hazelnut sector. This research—the first of its kind—examines the procurement price of Turkish hazelnuts, analyzing the
components that make up its value, and explores the relationship between the procurement price and working conditions in hazelnut production, with a special focus on child labor and the working conditions of seasonal migrant workers. The study also traces the share of wages in a kilogram of
hazelnut chocolate and a kilogram of chocolate hazelnut spread.

- by Osman Sahin and +2
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- Agriculture, Turkey, Migrant workers, Child Labour

ทายาทรุ่นที่ 2 ของผู้อพยพย้ายถิ่นชาวไทใหญ่จากประเทศเมียนมาในประเทศไทยมีจํานวนเพิ่มมากขึ้น งานศึกษาที่ผ่านมาแสดงให้เห็นว่าพวกเขาได้สร้างตัวตนใหม่ผ่านการศึกษาและการใช้ชีวิตในประเทศไทย และกลายเป็นลูกผสมทางวัฒนธรรมหรือคนพันทาง บทความนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อทําความเข้าใจการปรับตัวของทายาทรุ่นที่ 2 ของผู้ย้ายถิ่นชาวไทใหญ่จากประเทศเมียนมา จากการศึกษาและใช้ชีวิตในประเทศไทย ผ่านแนวคิดลูกผสมทางวัฒนธรรม
(Cultural Hybridity) ซึ่งได้รับการอธิบายในฐานะกระบวนการสร้างตัวตนที่ไม่หยุดนิ่ง ซึ่งจะทําให้เห็นความสลับซับซ้อนของการปรับตัวของทายาทรุ่นที่ 2 ภายใต้บริบทของการเป็นคนชายขอบของสังคมไทย บทความนี้เป็นการค้นคว้าเบื้องต้น โดยใช้วิธีการเชิงคุณภาพอันประกอบด้วย
การวิจัยเอกสาร ร่วมกับการลงพื้นที่ภาคสนามและการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกกับทายาทผู้ย้ายถิ่นชาวไทใหญ่จากประเทศเมียนมาในจังหวัดเชียงใหม่ ระหว่าง พ.ศ. 2561-2562
The number of the second generation of Shan migrants in Thailand has steadily increased. Previous studies have shown that they have formed a new identity through education and living in Thailand, and become cultural hybrids. This paper aims to investigate the adaptation of the second generation of Shan migrants from Myanmar through education and living in Thailand. The study employs a concept of cultural hybridity which is interpreted as a dynamic process to shed light upon the complexity of adaptation of the second generation of Shan migrants under the context of marginal people in Thai society. This paper is a preliminary analysis using a qualitative approach. Data were collected through document research, fieldwork, and in-depth interviews with the second generation of Shan migrants in Chiang Mai between 2018 and 2019.

- by Pisith Nasee
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- Migrant workers
- by Catherine Besteman
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- Security Studies, Capitalism, Apartheid, Migration Studies

It has been reported by Singaporean NGOs and newspapers that Bangladeshi temporary migrants
working as cleaners in Housing Development Board (HDB) residential estates face some of the greatest
difficulties – with respect to their working and living conditions – amongst Singapore’s nearly one million
temporary migrant workers. Our paper presents the findings of a qualitative study of the working and
living conditions of Bangladeshi HDB cleaners, based on semi-structured interviews with 11 of these
workers. Our study asked two research questions: first, what are the most pressing problems faced by
these workers, and, second, what factors give rise to these problems? We find that the most pressing
problems faced by these Bangladeshi HDB cleaners are: high recruitment fees and renewal fees, problems
with their work contract, low income, heavy workload and long working hours, the lack of leave days,
overcrowded accommodations, and unsanitary living conditions. Interviews suggest that the major factors
that give rise to these problems are: employer sponsorship of visas and threat of deportation, worker levy
and salary deductions, vulnerabilities in home country, and the lack of a mandated minimum living wage.
As Singapore continues to employ migrant workers to contribute to the country’s economy and society,
the findings of this study point to serious mistreatment of a sub-population of temporary migrant
workers. The findings suggests the need for better enforcement of labour laws and structural reforms to
reduce migrant workers vulnerability, such as ending employer sponsorship of visas.

- by Amirah Amirrudin and +1
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- Singapore, Migrant workers, Temporary migration

The aim of this policy brief is to provide some understanding of the health constraints faced by single male laborers (SMLs), the policy efforts underway to enhance their access to healthcare, and further actions that ought to be... more

‘Post-national’ scholars have taken the extension of social rights to migrants that are normally accorded to citizens as evidence of the growing importance of norms of ‘universal personhood’ and the declining importance of the nation-state. However, the
distinct approach taken by the state toward another understudied category of noncitizen – stateless people – complicates these theories by demonstrating that the state
makes decisions about groups on different bases than theory would suggest. These findings suggest the need to pay more attention to how the state treats other categories of ‘semi-citizens’. This article examines the differential effects of universal healthcare reforms in Thailand on citizens, migrants, and stateless people and explores their ramifications on theories of citizenship and social rights. While the state has expanded its healthcare obligations toward people living within its borders, it has taken a variegated approach toward different groups. Citizens have been extended ‘differentiated but unambiguous rights’. Migrants have been granted ‘conditional
rights’ to healthcare coverage, dependent on their status as registered workers who pay mandatory contributions. Large numbers of stateless people, however, saw their right to state welfare programs disenfranchised following passage of the new universal healthcare law before later being granted ‘contingent rights’ through a new program.

- by Joseph Harris
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- Sociology, Political Sociology, Globalization, Political Science

Stereotypical representations of socially marginalized groups have been historically used towards the ‘othering’ of certain communities. This chapter explores the use of humour in such representations to understand how laughter is performed to draw social boundaries with the marginalized other. The Indian male gaze cast upon the Nepali man is at the center of this discussion. We use the framework of the superiority theory of humour and problematise the ‘gaze’ to trace the impact of race relations embedded in colonial history and the present-day migrant-class status of the Nepali male subject, on his stereotypical portrayal. The arguments unraveling the imagination of this caricature are built upon examples from three distinct sites of humour. We begin with the examination of text-based jokes forwarded through mass-messaging platforms and then proceed to look at how these portrayals are captured in visual media and in the cinematic experience. Lastly, we analyze ‘cringe pop’ on social media in search of the Indian male gaze when the visibility of this stereotypical Nepali man has waned up to an extent. The gaze that is cast upon the subject of such humour is understood in terms of what becomes a hegemonic ideal of masculinity and the laughter that follows further legitimizes this exercise of power.

- by Sandhya A.S and +1
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- Humour Studies, Migrant workers, Othering, Marginalization
- by Rich Furman
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- Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Business Ethics, Religion

This article examines the legal framework regulating unskilled and low-skilled migrant workers
in Singapore. It argues that the current legal framework discriminates against these migrant
workers and conceptualizes them as undesirable for inclusion in the wider society. This, it is
contended, is premised on the assumption that migrant workers could be sequestered from the
local population to some extent. This article provides some challenges to this assumption,
highlighting instead some of the broader social and political consequences of this exclusionary
legal framework. Consequently, it is argued that a more inclusive and integrationist approach
is needed, and some positive developments are highlighted.

- by Jaclyn L Neo
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- Migration, Labour Law, Labor Migration, Migrant workers

This article explores the various ways in which noise acts as an aesthetic marker of precarity in Nick Broomfield's Ghosts, a documentary account of the death of 23 undocumented Chinese nationals in the United Kingdom in 2004. Taking its cue from recent work on aesthetics and the temporalities of precarity, it considers the ways in which the different forms of noise-medial and informational-index the ways in which the figure of the undocumented migrant labourer disturbs dominant western accounts of the aesthetic predi-cated on a division between production and consumption. Noise, in the form of Michel Serres' conceptual figure of the parasite, it argues, registers the ways in which precarious labour has revealed the dependence of aesthetic categories on models of production rendered incoherent by the representation of undocumented migrant labour.

- by Niall Martin
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- Undocumented Immigration, Precarity, Aesthetics and Ethics, Documentary Film
- by Anita Chan
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- Migrant labour, Contemporary China, Migrant workers

The current state of art report aims to enquire on the actual situation in Italy by combining a literature, policy and procedure review on the following topics: migrants and refugees’ employment & unemployment rates, as well as their educational status, theoretical and methodological approaches of migrants and refugees’ integration into the labour market; together with a field research analysis conducted through the delivery of questionnaires and focus groups among migrants, refugees and stakeholders in Sicily.

- by Luisa Zappalà
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- Family Caregivers/Carers, Migrant workers, Caregiving, Migrant Domestic Workers

One of the examples of governance practice is cooperative.
In Malang City, there is a cooperative named ‘Koperasi TKI Purna Citra Bumi Mandiri’ that is established by the former migrant worker, Winarti. She dedicates this cooperative for the former migrant workers in Malang who have been dismissed from their job because of global economic crisis.
As we know, the global economic and social crisis that happened not only in Indonesia, but also in the world, have been gave a bad impact to the migrant workers life. Some of them have to be laid-off from their job. Tragically, when they returned to Indonesia, they could find job to fulfill their life.
The TKI Purna Citra Bumi Mandiri cooperative works together with ILO (international Labour Organization) in East java, to stimulate the former migrant business skills. They train the other former migrant how to improve their own business skills and create job so they can be able to build their better life.

- by Rany P Hadi
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- Migrant workers, Best Practices in Local Governance
- by Barbara Blaskó
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- Economic History, Local History, Microhistory, Emigration Research

Ethnographic methodologies developed in social anthropology and sociology hold considerable promise for addressing practical, problem-based research concerned with the construction site. The extended researcher-engagement characteristic of ethnography reveals rich insights, yet is infrequently used to understand how workplace realities are lived out on construction sites. Moreover, studies that do employ these methods are rarely reported within construction research journals. This paper argues that recent innovations in ethnographic methodologies offer new routes to: posing questions; understanding workplace socialities (i.e. the qualities of the social relationships that develop on construction sites); learning about forms, uses and communication of knowledge on construction sites; and turning these into meaningful recommendations. This argument is supported by examples from an interdisciplinary ethnography concerning migrant workers and communications on UK construction sites. The presented research seeks to understand how construction workers communicate with managers and each other and how they stay safe on site, with the objective of informing site health-and-safety strategies and the production and evaluation of training and other materials.

- by Dylan Tutt and +1
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- Ethnography, Construction Management, Indigenous Knowledge, Migrant workers
- by Eleonora Castagnone and +3
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- Industrial Organization, Workforce Diversity, Diversity Management, Migrant labour
- by Winston Ly
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- Social Theory, Refugee Studies, Asylum Law, Migrant labour

Situating LGBT activism in a gendered, Asian migratory context, this study asks why and how LGBT migrant workers are able to organize themselves and come out publicly as lesbians, bisexual women, or transgender people in Hong Kong. Which factors are enablers for this phenomenon? A comparison of two migrant groups, namely, the Filipinos and Indonesians, who reside in the same city, will shed light on both the commonalities and diversities of their understanding of LGBT rights as well as their approaches for engaging in the LGBT movement.
The study examines the different immersed contexts of the two migrant groups rather than homogenizing “migrant domestic worker” as a universal description of these women. The study adopts an intersectional approach to examine how multiple subject positions, including gender, race, class, and non-citizen status, affect migrant domestic workers who have a same-sex relationship in the host city aswell as their practices and activism. Besides, it also adopts an inter-Asia approach to shed light on the flows of knowledge aswell as inequalities among Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Indonesia and provide insights into how LGBT activism in Asia is culturally hybrid and diasporic. Qualitative research methods, including participant observation and in-depth interviews, were conducted from 2016 to 2018. I attended LGBT parades and events and conducted in-depth interviews with three Filipinos, two Indonesians, and two Hong Kong people. I also used data from my earlier field work in 2010 to 2012.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13634607211025903

- by Francisca Y K Lai
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- Indonesia, Intersectionality, Migrant workers, Hong Kong Society

This is a memoir about how I survived war, patriarchies, and dictatorship. I was born in 1936 in Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City, Pangasinan, Philippines. Some Third World economies depend on the economic and social remittances of overseas workers and yet our contributions are undervalued. I share my insights on the obstacles to girls and women's education and the resources that enabled me to survive and thrive.

For super-diversity to describe the diversification of Asian global cities, it should be discussed with reference to existing regimes governing diversity. In Singapore, the postcolonial state instituted the multiracialism of equality between the ‘races’ of colonial governmentality, so as to manage the ethnic diversity of ‘the plural society’. However, contemporary immigrations disrupted this multiracialism. The political response focused on managing the mobilities of low-wage migrant workers. Drawing on my research on urban change, I show that the this led to the biopolitical management of migrant worker mobilities and articulation of the discourse of needs. I argue that the 2013 riot by migrant workers accelerated the production of dormitory space to exclude migrant workers from access to the city and reproduce their physical needs. The case of Singapore shows that we need to ‘moor’ the understanding of super-diversity in Asian global cities to the postcolonial management of diversity and migration.

- by Daniel P S Goh
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- Race and Ethnicity, Urban Studies, Singapore, Migrant workers
- by Said Fares
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- Middle East Studies, Human Rights, Islamic Studies, Islamic Ethics

Since the mid-2000s Vietnam has become an important manufacturing hub in garment and, increasingly, in electronics. However, the expansion of an FDI-dominated, export-oriented manufacturing did not contribute to a genuine national industrialisation process and the weight of manufacturing on GDP has actually declined. Low industrial wages (associated with poor working conditions) have emerged as a structural (rather than transitory) competitive factor for the country’s participation in global production networks.

As China urbanizes, more migrants need and expect public services. Many municipalities, however, resist and undermine elements of the central government’s urbanization strategy by deflecting demands for benefits instead of accepting or denying them outright. Urban
authorities sometimes do so by establishing nearly impossible eligibility requirements or requiring paperwork that outsiders struggle to obtain. At times they also nudge migrants to seek healthcare or education elsewhere by enforcing dormant rules or by shutting down a locally
available service provider. Limiting access to public services saves cities a vast amount of money and isolates and disempowers migrants. Phantom services are a consequence of the localization of the household registration system (hukou 户口) and a sign that new axes of
inequality and gradations of second-class citizenship have emerged.

- by Kevin O'Brien and +1
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- Labor Migration, Migration Studies, Urbanization, Contemporary China

Whereas the exile is associated with high culture and the sublime, non-material world, the migrant milieu is linked with low culture and the material, corporeal world, ruled by money, absorbing and dehumanizing human lives. Migrant workers do not populate imaginative " third worlds " , but material non lieux – transitional places on the brink of the society without tradition and identity. Although they constantly swing between two countries, their culture is not perceived as a dynamic, moving one, but as a sedentary one. Whereas intellectual elites belong at the same time to the culture of home and host land, migrant workers are excluded from both of them, being incompatible even with patriotic concepts of the home land. The paper outlines the main characteristics and modes of representation of migrant culture on some examples from the visual culture, painting and film from the former Yugoslavia.

- by Serbian Studies Research
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- Yugoslavia, Nomadism, Migrant workers

The number of problems of migrant workers has been bothering public conscience widely, ranging from cases of deportation, persecution, rape, and even death threats to the workers. The Government considered not doing its job in protecting the workers optimally especially in the diplomatic process. The workers do not have bargaining position steadily that weaken them so that arose the case and issues of migrant workers abroad. UU PPTKILN which has been legalized since 2004 was less able to base the protection of migrant workers abroad. This encourages the study of policy analysis to the migrant workers protection and result the idea that the law (UU PPTKILN) should be revised accordance with the Convention on Migrant Workers and regulate the rights and obligations of migrant workers in a comprehensive manner and uphold the dignity of workers. The government firmness needed to regulate and solve these problems not only inside but also outside (the destination countries of migrant workers).

- by Ratih Probosiwi
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- Social Problems, Migrant workers

"The Criminalization of Immigration: Contexts and Consequences explores these competing narratives and the consequences of criminalizing immigration in the United States and abroad. It examines the impact of national, state, and local... more

- by Rich Furman
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- Critical Theory, History, Sociology, Criminology

This is the final, edited version of an original 2hours interview recorded live on skype in March 2020. Zhang Ruiqi and Cai XIngyang approached me from NY and asked me if I wanted to answer some questions about the activity of the Social Sensibility R&D Departments in Beijing and in Paris/Gonesse. This is the edited final Chinese version that just got out on March 2021.on the online and paper media TRIGGER

- by Alessandro Rolandi 李山
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- Critical Theory, Sociology, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Thinking
- by Silvia Pessoa
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- Migrant Literature, Migrant labour, Migrant and Diasporic Literature, Qatar

This report identifies barriers to migrant worker representation in Jordan’s General Trade Union of Workers in Textile, Garment, and Clothing Industries (JTGCU) and proposes recommendations for improving their representation within the... more

- by Diana Nabulsi and +2
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- Jordan, Trade unions, Migrant workers, Trade Unions in Developed and Developing Countries

book review, forthcoming on Eurasian Geography and Economics

- by June Wang
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- Michel Foucault, China, Urban Governance, Migrant workers
- by Gabrielle Clark
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- Law and Society, Public Law, Migrant workers

This article discusses a unique cultural politics of identity affirmation and resistance enacted in the rural spaces of Greece by male migrants from India and Pakistan through the game of Kabaddi, a rural indigenous sport. Drawing on interviews with South Asian migrant men and observation of Kabaddi tournament in Greece, it argues that the play of Kabaddi offers deliberate performative acts of masculine resistance against the emasculatory bordering regimes of illegality, deportability and racial otherness. Kabaddi tournaments occur as highly masculinised, public, collective, celebratory, yet potentially subversive spectacles. Kabaddi allows South Asian migrant men to acquire culturally specific masculine capital through displays of muscular masculinity. As spectators and participants, they collectively engage in cultural affirmation and wresting subjectivity against bordering regimes that subjugate racialised migrant men into (im)mobility, enforce labour disciplining and invisibility and emasculate them into abjectivity.

- by Reena Kukreja
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- Resistance (Social), Migrant labour, Greece, Migrant workers

No existing review has synthesized key questions about acculturation experiences among international migrant workers. This review aimed to explore (1) What are global migrant workers' experiences with acculturation and acculturative stress? (2) What are acculturative stress coping strategies used by migrant workers? And (3) how effective are these strategies for migrant workers in assisting their acculturation in the host countries? Peer-reviewed and gray literature, without time limitation, were searched in six databases and included if the study: focused on acculturative stress and coping strategies; was conducted with international migrant workers; was published in English; and was empirical. Eleven studies met the inclusion criteria. Three-layered themes of acculturation process and acculturative stress were identified as: individual layer; work-related layer; and social layer. Three key coping strategies were identified: emotion-focused; problem-focused; and appraisal-focus...