Long Distance Migrants in the United States

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Many people who work in nursing in the united states are themselves long distance migrants. So there is an understanding of the dilemmas of both big capital and, as it were, liberal imperatives that have been enforcing down wages. Andi: "These dynamics enable the possibility for people to think internationalism from the ground up"

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