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Migrant workers around the world face difficulties in the job market as the global economy gets worse. Workers are unable to send as much money back home, which analysts predict will hurt their homeland economies.

Australia announced Monday it would cut migrant worker jobs by 14 percent this fiscal year, knowing that it still needs to keep a migrant workforce while protecting local jobs. Australia’s ABC talks to a builder who says the migration cuts are reasonable.

“Unemployment in building and construction is heading up at an alarming rate. ‘We're projecting at least a loss of 50,000 jobs in this industry over the next 12 months and it's likely more to come.’” (ABC News Australia)

NPR talks to financial experts, who discuss what the cuts mean for the global economy.

“If these people are laid off, then they are also not sending money back home, which is also causing the economies in their home countries to shrink.” (NPR)

Al Jazeera English talks to Nepalese citizens who returned home after losing their jobs abroad. A migration expert says this may have a profound impact on the country.

“I’m seeing indications of social unrest in Nepal.” (Al Jazeera English)

The International Herald Tribune shares the viewpoint of a Senegalese migrant worker who lives in a shelter made of branches, tarpaulins and sheets of scrap wood in Spain.

"If I had known Europe would be like this, I would never have come."(International Herald Tribune)

The article also has a different perspective, examining the fight for jobs between nationals and migrants in Spain. The paper follows a former Spanish construction worker who now picks strawberries.

"Picking strawberries is the last resort, but it's all there is." (International Herald Tribune)

Who should be protected in the battle for jobs: national or migrant workers?
What do you think will happen to the economy of the countries these migrant workers come from?