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require them to work for four years continuously without a break to return to their home countries. Many TCN contractors have also been lured by preemployment deals that have guaranteed them the job as long as they give a percentage of their pay to an 'employment agent' or 'representative'. TCN housing compounds are generally in less secure areas outside of the main base. As a result, many TCNs in such high-risk areas have been injured or killed, however most military installations will provide life-saving medical care as required.
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In the US, it is often used to describe individuals of other nationalities hired by a government or government sanctioned contractor who represent neither the contracting government nor the host country or area of operations. This is most often those performing on government contracts in the role of
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TCNs such as have been employed by the United States military (through contractors) for operations in the Middle East for many years. The accommodations, security, and treatment of TCNs can vary greatly from the way that U.S. and multinational coalition personnel are treated. Their contracts often
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Contract personnel being used by the US government to fight the global war on terror in Iraq consist of Expatriates, namely those personnel of US citizenship that represent a private military contractor being contracted by the US Government, Indigenous Iraqi and Kurdish personnel and TCNs such as
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Unlike refugees who are protected by international conventions, third-country nationals (TCNs), who neither belong to the country of refuge or the one they fled, are not covered by any global rights conventions. It is often up to their governments to look after them and arrange for their
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In an April 19 memorandum to all Pentagon contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Joint Contracting Command demands that the widespread practice of taking away workers passports come to end. Contractors engaging in the practice, states the memo, must immediately "cease and desist."
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In terms of employment, the term is often used to designate "an employee working temporarily in an assignment country, who is neither a national of the assignment country nor of the country in which the corporate headquarters is located."
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Since April 2006, the Pentagon now demands that contractors fight labor trafficking and low quality working conditions in Iraq endured by tens of thousands of low-paid south Asians working under US-funded contracts in Iraq.
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Expatriates - those personnel who are of the same nationality as the contracting government. (In Iraq, foreign nationals working as a member of a US contractor are regarded as expatriates)
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HCNs (host country nationals), LNs (local nationals), Indigs (indigenous personnel) – those personnel who are indigenous to the area of operations.
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TCN (third country national) – those personnel of a separate nationality to both the contracting government and the AO or "area of operations".
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Blood, Sweat & Tears: Asia’s Poor Build U.S. Bases in Iraq, by David Phinney, CorpWatch October 3rd, 2005
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While EU nationals might have a right to cross internal borders, such right might be more limited for TCN.
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are currently being employed by many of the private military contracting firms currently under contract.
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Despite the Pentagon crackdown, civilian contractors still report problems of poor working conditions.
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Pentagon Attacks Labor Trafficking by US Contractors, by David Phinney, CorpWatch, April 24th, 2006
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Generally speaking, the US government classifies contract personnel under one of three headings:
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showing the relationships between various multinational European organisations and agreements
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Indian Contract Workers in Iraq Complain of Exploitation, New York Times, May 7th, 2004
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A person temporarily residing in a country in the process of moving to a third country
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Depending on the used definition, people from Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein (
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US Fortress Rises in Baghdad, by David Phinney, CorpWatch, October 17th, 2006
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Underclass of Workers Created in Iraq, Washington Post, July 1, 2004
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employed by private industry and citizens in a country such as
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Art. 2(6) of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 (Schengen Borders Code)
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in which it is common to outsource work to non-citizens.
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Probe into Iraq Trafficking Claims, CNN.com, May 5, 2004
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A TCN living on a US military base near Fallujah, Iraq
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