Palavra-chave Migrant Worker

Um jovem agricultor da zona rural de Yorkshire entorpece as suas frustrações diárias com bebedeiras e sexo casual, até à chegada de um trabalhador migrante romeno.

A história do engenheiro de voo da NASA José Hernandéz e da sua família de agricultores ao longo de várias décadas, desde uma aldeia em Michoacán, México, pelos campos do Vale de San Joaquin, até a mais de 300 quilómetros da Terra, na Estação Espacial Internacional. Com o apoio da família, a tenacidade e dedicação de José levam-no a alcançar o impossível. Baseado numa história verídica.

Em Zhili, uma cidade têxtil perto de Beijing, jovens vindos das zonas rurais trabalham sem parar para construir um futuro. Partilham dormitórios, sonhos, amores e desilusões, num quotidiano moldado pelas estações, falências e exigências familiares.

Rapazes tranquilos de dia, reis de noite. O filme segue um grupo de jovens ciganos búlgaros que vêm a Viena em busca de liberdade e dinheiro rápido. Eles vendem seus corpos como se isso fosse tudo o que têm. O que os conforta, tão longe de casa, é a sensação de estarem juntos. Mas as noites são longas e imprevisíveis.

Singapura, 1997. A rotina da família Lim é modificada com a chegada de Terry, empregada doméstica que foi para a cidade sonhando com uma vida melhor. Encarregada de cuidar do filho do casal, ela desenvolve uma relação íntima com o menino.

Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.

Follows the story of love, friendship and growth of six young men and women who move from countryside to the big city of Tokyo, each with their own dreams and aspirations. Among them is Sugihara Oto and Soda Ren. After her mother died, Oto was raised by adoptive parents in Hokkaido. Although she has given up on having any high hopes or big dreams for her future, she still remains positive and faces life with optimistic attitude. One day, she finds out the fact that her adoptive parents are planning to marry her to the wealthy man in town in order to solve their financial debt. Soda Ren was raised by his grandfather in Fukushima. Ren works hard on one job after another in order to earn the money to buy back his grandfather's land so that they can start farming again. By chance, Oto and Ren meet in Hokkaido and they decide to move to Tokyo to find new life to change their fate and future. However, as soon as they arrive Tokyo, they get separated in the crowds...

The story takes place in Songjiang City, a small town in the northeast. A group of migrant workers from all over the country, with all kinds of dreams, gathered on the construction site of the Champs Elysees apartment. They know that after they have built up with sweat, they are the dream bed of the city's people tomorrow. Don't ask for anything else, as long as you don't owe wages, thank God. In the shacks of the shacks, hundreds of migrant workers of different ages and temperament are crowded together. They ask the foreman, Xie Laoda (Ma Shaozhen), and the wages in arrears are issued. Many people point this money to send their children to school and for the elderly. see a doctor. Xie’s answer was disappointing and angry. The desperate migrant workers opened the office of Zhang Jian (Hu Xiaoguang), the person in charge of the construction site. Who knows that he has already escaped. In the face of hard-earned money being misappropriated by others, migrant workers are forced to collect collectively, but waiting for them is a shameless threat and intimidation. At this time, who can help this group of helpless migrant workers?

Six average Americans are confronted with the realities of illegal immigration while retracing the footsteps of dead border runners.

What drives people to start a new life thousands of kilometers from their homeland? Some follow their dreams, others came out of necessity. They have one thing in common: they all leave their homeland. What does that do to a person? Various immigrants tell their stories.