There are three needs which precarious migrants or temporary guest workers have:

• affordable health care including post injury care
• salary on time
• an emergency flight ticket home

Civil society can easily build solutions by borrowing corporate playbooks but band aid is all they can offer. Time to do more? Think platforms and coalitions.

Karma is everything. I knew how to do ethnography and write and still do. High end theory building needs ground level knowledge, access and trust with the communities which one is writing about. A pittance of a interview token does not cut it.