What stops employees of airlines from 3rd world countries from staying illegally in other countries ?
For example, Philippine Airlines flies from Manila to Los Angeles. What keeps the airline employees from staying in America and not returning to their job with Philippine Airlines? Are the airline employees able to have visas for the countries they fly to ? If so, I would think many of them would stay in wealthier counties and refuse to return to their country of origin. The average salary in the Philippines is about $5 a day, and even if the flight attendents make 10 times the average salary, that is still not much money.
Are the airline employees somehow kept at the airport , and not allowed to leave ?
I’m going to guess that the US has a “shore leave” type visa for sailors and airline workers who enter the country for short intervals in connection with their employment.
As far as what is keeping these sorts of people from staying in the country illegally, it’s the same thing that does (or doesn’t) stop other people from overstaying their visas – threat of deportation, difficulty in finding employment, etc. In addition, a sailor or airplane crewmember who overstays his visa will obviously lose his job.
Generally getting a visa is a pretty tough process when coming from a country where a lot of people stick around past their welcome. In most cases you have to get someone to take economic responsibility for you if you become unable to care for yourself in the country you are visiting. In this case, I’d imagine the airline does that. There aren’t as many hiring discrimination laws in most developing countries, so I’d imagine the airlines take great care to hire staff that has deep ties (especially family) in their home country.
And remember, not everyone in the world really wants to come here and live the illegal immigrant life. I remembered when I visited Honduras I was shocked that so many people there told me that they spent time in the US. I thought that anyone who made it here would still be here. But then I looked around me. It’s a beautiful country and the people have a lot of pride. These people made some money and went back to live on their property with their families in the country they still love and believe in as much as you or I love and believe in America.
A stewardess has a pretty sweet job and probably lives a pretty decent life where she is. $5.00 a day isn’t much to us, but everything is cheaper there. It’s not uncommon for a middle class person in a developing country to have maids, a driver, a large house, lots of great food (perhaps prepared by a cook) etc. Even if you aren’t middle class, it takes a lot of desperation to leave you home, family and culture for the great unknown.
It might not be much money to a U.S. resident, but it would be a lot of money to a Philippine citizen. If he lives in the Philippines and makes 10 times the average wage (imagine if you made 10x the average U.S. wage), he’d probably not want to leave in the first place so that he could stay here and be an illegal undocumented unemployed alien.
It might not be much money to a U.S. resident, but it would be a lot of money to a Philippine citizen. If he lives in the Philippines and makes 10 times the average wage (imagine if you made 10x the average U.S. wage), he’d probably not want to leave in the first place so that he could stay here and be an illegal undocumented unemployed alien.