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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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The following was reported by Jonathan Miller of Homelands Productions http://homelands.org

This Broadcast will be available for the next 7 days. The broadcast lasts 30 mintes.

 

BBC Radio 4

Cutting the Lifeline [5 May 2010]

MIGRANT WORKER REMITTANCES (RADIO BROADCAST)

Honduras Workers Example in Virginia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s9j0s

 

 

Listen at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00s9j0s

 

Migrant workers' remittances provide a lifeline for millions in the world's poorest countries. But the global economic crisis is cutting that lifeline for many people. The flow of remittance money is drying up - and increasingly it's the workers themselves - rather than their wages - that are heading home.

 

The small Central American country of Honduras is one of the poorest in the western hemisphere and depends for almost thirty percent of its income on remittances. In this programme we hear from Honduran migrant workers in the U.S. who are struggling to find jobs - and from their impoverished families back home.

 

Producer: Vera Frankl

An IGA production for BBC Radio 4.

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Stuart Basefsky                   
Director, IWS News Bureau                
Institute for Workplace Studies 
Cornell/ILR School                        
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor             
New York, NY 10016                        
                                   
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