Migrant workers and expatriate assignments:

Numbers of migrants worldwide have been increasing in huge amounts reaching near 200 million per year in 2010; people have migrate looking for study or work opportunities, better life style or sometimes running away from violence.

Countries like Canada have attracted a lot of foreign workers to apply for programs as TFWP (Temporary Foreign Worker Programs), addressing them to vacancies that the national labor hand is unable to fulfill, one of the main focus of these programs has been hiring high amounts of foreign workers to grow crops during peaks of agricultural seasons.

There are a lot of negative issues related to these non native workers; their conditions (migrants) do not allowed them to demand any kind of contractual deals, like insurance, revenues, dental plans among others, so in this scenario, they are usually exploited and companies take this advantage to produce at minimum cost.

Migration demands for different kind of measures in order to guarantee integration and social inclusion, which is a two way process that requires the adaptation of non natives to become part of the society and the role of the hosting society.

Question:

Explain how easy is it for Colombian companies to employ expatriates locally? Give examples.

In Colombia is easy to hire workers from other country, the national government is not to restrictive when it comes to imigrational issues; companies are allowed to hire certain number of foreign workers, which are highly valuated due to their precedence (companies or universities with a high level on knowledge and technology).

EAFIT University hires foreign teachers to present classes on international issues and languages. Also companies like the French Alliance which hires foreign teachers. 

 

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