enganchadores
English translation: recruiters
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| 03:18 Oct 31, 2006 |
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| 4 | recruiters |
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panderers Explanation: also: panders |
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groomers Explanation: very specific in modern English use now - as a verb "to groom" someone via the internet, re adults and children |
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recruiters Explanation: Or hookers. The job title of the man who solicits paying customers, known as pollos (cooked chickens), is enganchador — a "hooker." And the guides who lead their trusting charges into the desert are known as "Los polleros," or "chicken wranglers." http://www.luisurrea.com/extras/articles/deaths_desert_trek.... Recontracting in turn quickly gave rise to the appearance of a group of ex-coolies who became in effect labor contractors (contratista or enganchador) taking on the task and responsibility of recruiting, managing and, very importantly, disciplining labor crews (caudrillas) on plantations. http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:3-ToD0NbmPMJ:192.38.121.2... Although they do not appear to have been referred to as such at that time, at least two types of coyotes, using the broad definition of coyotes and coyotaje presented at the outset of this report played an important role in recruiting Mexicans to work on the rails, on farms, and in mines. The first type was a recruiter known as an enganchador or enganchista, who traveled into Mexico at the behest of U.S. employers or contract employment agencies to induce Mexicans to migrate north with promises of employment and free transport to the border and beyond, to be paid off later, with interest, from the contracted worker’s wages. http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/wrkg124.pdf In Brunswick County alone there are three enganchadores —literally, recruiters—who recruit primarily single, undocumented males whom they house and put to work under conditions similar to the “jobbing gangs” of slaves in the Antebellum South and the Caribbean, renting them out to area employers for double what they earn and, like Pedro’s FLC in Georgia, pocketing a sizeable proportion of their earnings (in this case, half). http://migration.ucdavis.edu/cf/more.php?id=192_0_2_0 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 13 hrs (2006-10-31 16:50:03 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- I would use the Spanish term and add "hooker" in quotation marks. American agents preferred crews imported from the interior of Mexico to those picked up by chance along the border. The agent worked through his Mexican counterpart, the enganchador, the “hooker,” who enlisted workers largely from the tramp population around cities. Hostility toward the recruiter and prohibitive legislation made open recruiting dangerous in the rural districts. http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/docs/jahpark.... |
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