Migrant labor involves the movement of people from one country to another primarily for employment related reasons.
Migrant workers are used extensively for crop harvesting, For example Workers’ migration in China. Global crisis affects migrant workers China has about 242 million rural residents who work off the farm, and about 153 million of them are migrants who work outside their home towns, including tens of millions in export zones making cheap goods for the rest of the world (Buckley and Wills 2011).
Expatriates and Overseas experiences
The term Expatriate is used to refer to people living in a foreign country from all walks of life, he or she travel to a foreign country for a specific reason, such as mission work, employment, humanitarian aid work, government work, etc.
They are people, who go to another country to develop a different set of activities, works and establish themselves in the host country, with the initial initiative of the international organization.
This kind of activity abroad are applied mainly by multinational companies, primarily with the intention of establishing operations in a different country, in order to make the company bigger or stronger or just for starting from scratch.
An expatriate Assignment is suitable to begin with an available position perhaps in a subsidiary of the company for which the person works for.
As a target, companies do these investments to gain better employees who can and learn and develop many capacities abroad and back in home, they would apply those new capacities in the company, however EA offers a set of opportunities to the travelers.
Know a different culture, live in a way different place with specific manners, gain of knowledge about how business are managed, accomplish the assignment, achieve new skills and get a higher position within the firm. Those are clearly opportunities for expatriates.
On the other hand, overseas experiences are related to Expatriate assignment, but they quite different from each other. First of all, in OE the initiative of international experience comes from the individual and not from a company.
OE is not committed to a work-career development, these activities are more addressed to meet some places, interact with new cultures, gain some professional experiences, have some fun and cross cultural experiences.
Also, it is relevant to say that people find their motivation to have an overseas experience in curiosity rather than in specific goals, unlike the individuals in expatriate assignments.
Question
Explain how easy is it for Colombian companies to employ expatriates locally? Give examples
I guess that is not easy and common, not because Colombian companies are not willing to hire foreigners, but so because our country is not currently recognized for expatriates. However, there can be many expatriates working in some economical sectors.
These expatriates are not only in the economical campus, many people coming from abroad work in the cultural, medical, and aid sectors inside our country.
So according to that, Colombia can offer a diversity of opportunities for several kinds of expatriate assignments and for overseas experiences too.
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