| Description |
166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in Asia Pacific business ; v13 |
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Studies in Asia Pacific business ; v13
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| Contents |
Introduction: Migrant Workers in Pacific Asia / Yaw A. Debrah -- The 'Host' State and the 'Guest Worker' in Malaysia, Public Management of Migrant Labour in Times of Economic Prosperity and Crisis / Christine B. N. Chin -- The Role of Low-skilled Foreign Workers in Taiwan's Economic Development / Joseph Lee -- The Unwilling Hosts: State, Society and the Control of Guest Workers in South Korea / Won-Woo Park -- The Political Economy of Migrant Worker Policy in Singapore / Linda Low -- Foreign Workers and Labour Migration Policy in Japan / Yasushi Iguchi -- Rural Migrants in Urban China: Willing Workers, Invisible Residents / Kenneth D. Roberts |
| Summary |
"Although international labor migration from and within Asia is not a new phenomenon, it has received much media coverage since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. As businesses collapsed and unemployment figures started to rise, many low-paid migrant workers in labour-receiving countries in East Asia found their services no longer needed. As low-paid legal and illegal migrant workers became surplus to requirements they were threatened with expulsion/repatriation at a time when jobs were scarce in many of the labour-exporting countries." "On the part of the host countries, there was some concern as to what to do with the redundant migrant workers who do the difficult, dirty and dangerous jobs that the local workers shun. These countries were in a dilemma as to whether to deport these migrant workers or to allow them to stay on in anticipation of economic recovery." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Migrant labor -- Asia.
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| Author |
Debrah, Yaw A., 1956-
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| LC no. |
2002008178 |
| ISBN |
0714653675 cloth |
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