In Search of Solutions for the Governance of the Rights of Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia: Regulatory Regionalism as a Reasonable Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 589-603
Author(s):  
Thuy Duong Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Reasonable Approach

scholarly journals MENTORING THE TROUBLED WOMEN WORKERS AT THE INDONESIAN EMBASSY IN SINGAPORE: Integration of Sufism and Psychology

Teosofia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Amin Syukur ◽  
Nidhomun Ni'am ◽  
Sri Rejeki
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Circular Migration ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Work Abroad

<p><span><em><span lang="EN">There are five components ofdemographics</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">, </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">namely</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">; </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">birth</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">, </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">death</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">, </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">migration</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">, </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">social mobility</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">, </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">and</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN"> m</span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">arriage. This study focuses onthe migration of people</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">, </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">commonly called circular migration</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">. </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">Population growth and economic issues</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">, </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">namely the narrowness of employment in Indonesia and the salary promised to be the cause</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">. </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">In Indonesia, this migration</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN"> is </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">called Indonesian Workers (</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">TKI), </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">both menand women.The majority of Indonesian people's livelihood</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN"> is </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">asrice farmers, whose results are not sufficient.Naturally, the majority of the Indonesian people become motivated to work abroad</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">. </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">This study focuses on one of the countries in Southeast Asia</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">, namely Singapore </span></em><span><em><span lang="EN">with consideration of the number of Indonesian migrant workers who work in Singapore</span></em></span><em><span lang="EN">.</span></em></p>

scholarly journals The Second Wave of COVID-19 in South and Southeast Asia and the Effects of Vaccination

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haitao Song ◽  
Guihong Fan ◽  
Yuan Liu ◽  
Xueying Wang ◽  
Daihai He
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Transmission Rate ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Pharmacological Interventions ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Death Data

Background: By February 2021, the overall impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in South and Southeast Asia was relatively mild. Surprisingly, in early April 2021, the second wave significantly impacted the population and garnered widespread international attention.Methods: This study focused on the nine countries with the highest cumulative deaths from the disease as of August 17, 2021. We look at COVID-19 transmission dynamics in South and Southeast Asia using the reported death data, which fits a mathematical model with a time-varying transmission rate.Results: We estimated the transmission rate, infection fatality rate (IFR), infection attack rate (IAR), and the effects of vaccination in the nine countries in South and Southeast Asia. Our study suggested that the IAR is still low in most countries, and increased vaccination is required to prevent future waves.Conclusion: Implementing non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs) could have helped South and Southeast Asia keep COVID-19 under control in 2020, as demonstrated in our estimated low-transmission rate. We believe that the emergence of the new Delta variant, social unrest, and migrant workers could have triggered the second wave of COVID-19.

scholarly journals Workers' Migration and Remittances In Bangladesh

1970 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-52
Author(s):  
Hiranya Nath ◽  
Khawaja Mamun
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Temporary Migrant ◽  
East And Southeast Asia

Bangladesh has sent more than 6.7 million workers to over 140 countries duringa period of more than three decades since the mid-1970s. Most of these workerstemporarily migrated to work in Middle East and Southeast Asia. This mass movementof temporary migrant workers has, to some extent, eased unemployment pressureson the over-burdened labor market in this highly populated country. More importantly,the remittance transfers received from these migrant workers have reacheda phenomenal level of over 10 billion US dollars in 2009, approximately 12 percentof GDP in Bangladesh. This paper analyzes the trends and various other aspects ofworkers' migration and remittances in Bangladesh. It further discusses the micro andmacroeconomic impacts of remittances. While most remittance transfers have beenused by migrant-sending households for consumption, there is evidence to show thatthese transfers have helped reduce poverty in Bangladesh. The analysis presentedin this paper further indicates that these remittances may have significant effects onother macroeconomic variables as well.

scholarly journals PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM BAGI IRREGULAR MIGRANT WORKERS INDONESIA DI KAWASAN ASIA TENGGARA (DALAM PERSPEKTIF HUKUM HAM INTERNASIONAL)

Yuridika ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
Riri Anggriani
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Human Life ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
International Human ◽  
Irregular Migrant

The development of globalization that occurred has considerable impact for human life and for countries in Southeast Asia. One is the movement of people from one country to another, especially concerning the problem of economic migrants seeking employment or working in a country where they work especially irregular migrant workers. These irregular migrants are vulnerable to violations of their human rights. The issue is how the protection of the law is provided by the country of origin through Indonesian national law in countries that are the destination of Indonesian migrant workers in the Southeast Asian Region through the perspective of international human rights law. This research is legal research. The results of this study indicate that Indonesian migrant workers with the status of irregular migrant workers are workers who also have the same rights as other migrant workers or other citizens so that countries (especially countries in Southeast Asia) have an obligation to acknowledge and Protect them wherever they may be or under any circumstances they experience as contained in the provisions of international human rights law, especially in the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families (CMW), 1990.

Southeast Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-84
Author(s):  
Andrew Geddes
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Know How ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Temporary Protection ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
Regional Grouping

Migration governance in Southeast Asia is shown to be strongly influenced by representations of its temporariness, which shape responses to labour migration and to forced displacement. The idea that migrant workers are temporary and that forcibly displaced people require temporary protection in the region and resettlement outside it has become embedded within repertoires of migration governance in Southeast Asia that shape what governing actors know how to do and also what they think they should be doing. The chapter focuses on ASEAN as a key regional grouping but one that has significant constraints on its ability to act on migration issues and on the Bali Process, which is a more informal regional consultation process and brings Australian influence into the Southeast Asian region.

ORGANIZING RETURN MIGRANT WORKERS FROM INDONESIA FOR SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE

Wacana Publik ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meiliyana Meiliyana
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Return Migrant ◽  
Impact On Family

Artikel ini akan menyajikan pemahaman tentang bagaiamana purna buruh migrant dapat memberikan dampak bagi keluarga dan masyarakat di sekelilingnya dalam hal peningkatan kualitas hidup dan kesejahteraan. Latar belakang utama dari artikel ini adalah semakin mudah dan banyaknya orang yang memutuskan menjadi pekerja migran di luar negaranya sebagai dampak dari globalisasi. Selanjutnya artikel ini akan focus pada purnaburuhmigran dan akan mencoba memberikan penjelasan pentingnya penelitian lebih lanjut tentang bagaimana para purna buruh migrant tersebut dapat berkontribusi untuk pembangunan yang berkelanjutan. Dalam artikel ini disajikan beberapa hasil penelitian tentang hubungan remitan, pembangunan dan buruh migran di dua negara Asia Tenggara yang merupakan negara pengirim buruh migrant terbesar di asiaTenggara. This article presents an understanding of how returnees of overseas workers have an impact on family and community in term of prosperity and wellbeing. The main background of thisarticle is the growing trend of migration as one impact of globalization. Furthermore this article focuses on overseas workers and will seek to address the lack attention of current research on demonstrating how returnees overseas workers could contribute to sustainable development. At the end of the article it suggests to do further research in order to find answers about the impacts of having experiences as overseas workers for family and community prosperity and well being. In this article is discussed two regions in Southeast Asia namely Indonesia and Philippine where in these two countries playing significant role as sending countries for overseas workers.

Labor migration from Southeast Asia to Taiwan: issues, public responses and future development

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Bang Deng ◽  
Hermin Indah Wahyuni ◽  
Vissia Ita Yulianto
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Migrant Laborers

PurposeThis paper is mainly focused on labor migration from Southeast Asia to Taiwan, showing a route of south–south mobility and discussing the causes of migrant workers in Taiwan, the issues faced by migrant workers as well as public response to migrant workers.Design/methodology/approachBesides a literate review on the topic of migrant worker researches in Taiwan, the data for this research was also based on qualitative interviews and observations conducted both in the fieldwork in Taiwan and in Indonesia between June and August during the summer of 2018.FindingsThe transnational mobility let many migrants from Southeast Asian countries to Taiwan end up losing their cultural capital and “make money” instead. For these migrants, they have experienced a downward social mobility of class through transnational mobility.Research limitations/implicationsBecause of the chosen research approach, the research results may lack generalizability. More migrant laborers from various origin countries were encouraged to include for further research.Practical implicationsLabor migration cases from Southeast Asia to Taiwan could very well serve as good examples in the carrying out of a reflection on the limit of focusing on social science only inside nation-states in order to push a forward thinking on the transnationalization of social inequality.Originality/valueThis paper calls attention to the close linkage between transnational mobility and social inequality. It showed how the transnationalization of social inequality could get new faces through the new waves of labor migration.

Mapping the Trafficking of Women across Colonial Southeast Asia, 1600s–1930s

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 224-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Contagious Diseases ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Male Migrant ◽  
European Colonialism

While slavery in the seventeenth century included a substantial traffic in Asian women, it was only in the late nineteenth century that the rise in trafficking in women in Asia came to the attention of international humanitarians who sought to combat this new form of post-abolition slavery. The increasing emphasis on women as slaves, held for the purposes of sexual exploitation, was to a large extent brought to public attention as the result of the enactment of the British Contagious Diseases Ordinance of 1870, which required that women working in prostitution be registered and counted. It was European colonialism in Southeast Asia and its reliance on the labor of Asian male migrant workers that had encouraged the increase in trafficking of women into Southeast Asia. Despite this, however, most European colonial officials sought to portray themselves as abolitionists and regarded trafficking as an Asian problem. This rhetoric of Asian slavery and European abolition was mobilized to provide moral justification for colonial expansion. By the early twentieth century international observers, under the auspices of the League of Nations, again sought to raise public awareness of the traffic in women, highlighting the cases of Chinese and Japanese women travelling into Southeast Asia. Once again, however, colonial governments sought to underplay any suggestions that they might be complicit in encouraging such traffic.

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