A path to social safety for migrant workers | Ashif Shaikh

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Hundreds of millions of migrant workers travel within their countries to seek out means of survival — often leaving behind all they know for months or even years. Many face poverty and exploitation, and they need a robust social safety net to protect them, says migrant advocate and 2023 Audacious Project grantee Ashif Shaikh. He shares how his grassroots organization Migrants Resilience Collaborative is making life-changing benefits like social security and health care accessible to those who need them while also amplifying migrant voices — paving the way towards a world that supports the workers actually building it. (This ambitious idea is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:10.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:12.0	Migration is only increasing as climate change accelerates.
0:17.0	And Asif Shake has made it his life's work
0:20.1	to build a network of resilience for migrants.
0:23.0	In his talk from TED 2023,
0:26.0	the audacious project grantee
0:28.0	explains how, and the hope and security it means
0:31.0	for a growing global community after the break.
0:35.0	So most of us here are migrants.
0:41.0	We have moved for opportunities and a better life
0:45.8	for ourselves and our children.
0:48.7	There are three quarters of a billion workers globally
0:52.0	who migrate within their countries.
0:54.7	Some go to the nearest town for short duration.
0:58.6	And some travel thousands of miles for months, even years, living all they know, including their families behind.
1:09.1	These migrants work at a construction site, manufacturing units, agriculture fields.
1:15.0	But unlike us, they are not migrating for opportunities,
1:20.0	but to survive.
1:22.0	The majority of them are poor. but to survive.
1:30.0	majority of them are poor working for very low wages and lack safety net. Many face hunger, debt and exploitation.
1:36.0	Without safety net, one job loss,
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