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Patterns and governance of labour migration in ASEAN: regional policies and migration corridors

  • Amarjit Kaur

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    Abstract

    Labour migration in Southeast Asia continues apace with globalisation, the greater integration of Southeast Asian economies in the world economy and regional demographic transformations. Since the 1870s, the region's further incorporation into the international economy interconnected with the spread of capitalism and imperialism and demand for Asian mineral and tropical commodities for the West's industrial requirements. The European colonisers' economic policies hence presaged the transformation of the existing geography of production and development of specific Asian labour systems. Both colonial establishments and Chinese entrepreneurs recruited mostly Chinese, Indian and Javanese male migrants for wage labour in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationHandbook of Migration and Globalisation
    EditorsAnna Triandafyllidou
    Place of PublicationCheltenham, United Kingdom
    PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing Limited
    Pages105-124
    Edition1
    ISBN (Print)9781785367519, 9781785367502
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018

    Publication series

    NameHandbooks on Globalisation

    UN SDGs

    This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    1. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
      SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

    Keywords

    • Economic Development Policy
    • Economic Geography
    • Comparative Government and Politics

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