ABSTRACT
Perhaps the most significant change in the landscape for current temporary migrant labour programmes, in contrast to those of the recent past, is the progress of globalization. This too was foreseeable to Arendt in 1958, and, focusing precisely on what is unresolvable about temporary migrant worker programmes, she identified the failure of citizenship to move into a global realm as the most serious problem of globalization for the human condition:
The evolution of temporary labour programmes in the half century since Arendt’s analysis confirms her prescience.
