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In this photo taken on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, an elderly man sits inside a bus in the station of Moscow, Russia. More and more migrants from the Central Asia are coming come to Moscow in search of work.
Ukraine
Russia’s war creates economic hardships for Central Asian migrants
About one-third of the staff at the Stoneacre restaurants in Newport, Rhode Island, is from overseas.
Jobs
Hospitality industries in the US struggle to find workers, but international labor is ticking up
Several African women sit in a room with light blue walls, next to luggage and personal belongings.
Migrant workers stuck in Beirut in wake of blast
Migrant farmworkers harvest corn
Justice
Migrant farmworkers in US deemed essential — but lack basic protections
A comic of a sitting man with a black background
Migration
These comics help combat mental health challenges for migrants in Vermont
Four women sit crosslegged on the floor of a windowless room. Around them are suitcases and bedding. A baby is wrapped in a blanket nearby.
Jobs
‘Discounted maids!’: How ads trap women in modern-day slavery in Jordan
The team in the changing room before a big match. Left to right: Kenneth, David, Binumon, Purna, Umesh, Padam.
Jobs
They are building Qatar’s World Cup stadiums — and dreaming of playing soccer.
Daniel Vega and Maria Elena Figueroa
Economics
This migrant is done with the US. Instead, he’s choosing to live undocumented in Mexico.
Arts, Culture & Media
Teatro Campesino
Striking dining hall workers at Harvard University say they have the support of much of the student body and faculty on campus.
Business
Harvard has a $35 billion endowment. Its dining hall workers are on strike for a $35,000 minimum salary.
A farm worker in California's Central Valley picks fruit by hand. An estimated 98 percent of California farm workers are foreign born, the majority of them unauthorized.
Economics
Farmers continue to wait (and wait) for relief on immigration reform
Vegetables at a Whole Foods Market in La Jolla, California. Much of its produce comes from the state’s Central Valley, where it's picked by migrant farmworkers.
Business
How the produce aisle looks to a migrant farmworker
Laborers work at a construction site in Doha on June 18, 2012.
Development
Foreign workers face exploitation and death while building Qatar’s World Cup sites
Molly Crabapple
Development
What life is like for a construction worker in Abu Dhabi, through the eyes of an artist
A family in a car
Arts, Culture & Media
The new film ‘Cesar Chavez’ retells the start of his movement in Delano, California
Migrants, mostly from Central America, take trains nicknamed "The Beast" through Mexico to the US border.
Conflict & Justice
Many immigrants in the US know this particularly dangerous train ride very well
Migrants, mostly from Central America, take trains nicknamed "The Beast" through Mexico to the US border.
Conflict & Justice
Many immigrants in the US know this particularly dangerous train ride very well