In this volume, experts from "sending" and "receiving" countries in Asia outline current trends in China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia; analyze existing government efforts to manage migration; and explore the unique role that ... This book uses a comparative historical perspective and a common analytical framework to analyze the experiences of the seven major labor-importing countries in the region: Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand. Found inside – Page 1961This volume makes the case for the fair treatment of female migrant workers from the global South who are employed in wealthy liberal democracies as care workers, domestic workers, home health workers, and farm workers. This report points to the growing number of labor migrants in Asia and examines the policy question of how to best safeguard their rights. This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South–South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore. Mobile Communication and Low-Skilled Migrants’ Acculturation to Cosmopolitan Singapore examines the role of mobile communication in the acculturation of South Asian labor migrants to Singapore, adopting a mobile phone appropriation model ... Found insideAt the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both. As with these story endings, there is no easy solution to the dauntingly complicated problems revealed. Striking in these stories is the deft economy, and perhaps what is not said. At times I was reminded of Mikhail Lermontov. Feminist geographic debates have drawn attention to the multi-scalar role of borders as processes of social differentiation that are reproduced and inscribed on the bodies of migrant workers in everyday life. The book provides individual reviews of recent developments in migration trends and policies in Australia, China, Hong Kong (China), Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach with a focus on policy and practice, this book examines the social, economic, and political issues that have arisen with the influx of foreigners in Singapore since the turn of the 21st century. Found inside – Page 387SICKNESS ABSENCE OF MIGRANT WORKERS Few papers had been published on the sickness absence of migrant ... KsChia SYNOPSIS SING MED J. 1988 ; 29 : 387-392 INTRODUCTION Total number of spells of absence Frequency ... Found inside – Page 50who tend to be either self - employed or unpaid family workers , and by the high number of migrant workers . Brunei , Singapore , and Malaysia have become the principal importers , while the remaining ASEAN members are largely exporters . Found inside – Page 2In the BIMPS region , the Philippines and Indonesia are the two countries that have the highest number of people migrating , while Brunei , Malaysia and Singapore continue to receive large numbers of foreign workers . The labour sending ... This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of China’s domestic and international migration. This series of reports identifies the impact of the Asian financial crisis on labour migration and the conditions of migrant workers in the region. International Migration and Development in East Asia and the Pacific discusses a range of policy options in both labor-sending and labor-receiving countries to address this question. Found insideLet us remember that we are meeting a passage of real life that runs concurrent to ours within this alleged city of dreams. The book is therefore urgent because it breaks open the hearts of readers to what our eyes fail to see. In the last part of the book he moves beyond the currently feasible to ask questions about immigration from a more fundamental perspective. Found insideHowever , radical changes have occurred with respect to female labour force participation following advances made in ... The increase in the number of migrant labour , however , did not overturn the preponderance of Singapore citizens in the ... Found insideThe foreign workers were screened for tuberculosis and venereal diseases. ... But by the 1990s, the number of migrant workers in Singapore was on the ... Found insideThis poignant coming-of-age story, told in the voice of inquisitive Maya, explores the plight of migrant domestic workers in Singapore and the relationships they form with the families they work for. The movement of people in Southeast Asia is an issue of increasing importance. Found inside – Page 199The largest number of international migrants found in Singapore is not so ... In 2000 the number of foreign workers was estimated at about 755,000 out of ... Found insideThis book tells the story of one such city, revealing how national development produces both aspirations to be cosmopolitan and to improve one's class standing, along with limitations in achieving such aims. This book reveals some of the complex phenomena and processes that strip bare the lives and dreams of migrant workers living abroad, whose life experiences are overwhelmingly dominated by stress and suffering and diminished gendered roles. Found inside – Page 59Year Size of Cohort Table 1 : Annual Flow of Thai Workers into Singapore , 1978 - 1994 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 89 ... The large number of illegal workers is one of the most salient features of Thai migrant labour migration to Singapore . Found insideFrom Migrant to Worker builds our understanding of the role the international labor movement and local unions have had in developing a movement for migrant workers' labor rights. Found insideDespite clear aspirations by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to create an effective and transparent framework to facilitate movements among skilled professionals within the ASEAN by December 2015, progress has been slow ... The women write about sacrifice, broken trust, exploitation, lack of food, salary deductions and constant scolding; but also about supportive employers, the love they have for the families they take care of, or how they use their time in ... "This research report reviews and analyses the system governing the salary and injury claims process for migrant workers in Singapore. 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