Sustainability Language

Human Rights & Social Sustainability

Migrant worker

A migrant worker is a person who moves within or across borders for employment or work-related opportunity.

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Definition

A migrant worker is a person who moves within or across borders for employment or work-related opportunity.

Overview

What it means in practice

Migrant worker should be read as a human-rights and social-sustainability term. Its meaning depends on the affected people, workplace, legal context, severity and evidence available.

In practice, users should state the boundary, actor, method and evidence. That keeps migrant worker specific enough for review without turning it into a broader claim.

Why it matters

Migrant worker matters because social sustainability language can affect real rights, remedy and accountability. Clear wording helps prevent serious harms from being hidden behind generic risk language.

Common misconception

A common error is to treat Migrant worker as a compliance label only. The stronger approach is to state who is affected, what harm or right is at issue, and what evidence or remedy exists.

Review questions

Who or what is covered by the term? What evidence supports it? What limitation, method or affected group would change how a reader interprets the claim?

Review

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