Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

 his category refers to any policy, measure, law, legislation or regulation regarding low or semi-skilled labour migration.  Labour migration is the movement of persons with the aim of employment or income generating activities (e.g. entrepreneurship). Low-skilled migration is the movement of persons who do not possess a university education. Low-skilled migration can also refer to the movement of persons holding jobs that do not require a university education or extensive experience. Public policy framework can also use salary level to define low-skilled migration.

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Migration of Low Skilled Workers from India to the European Union

Authors S.K. SASIKUMAR, Rakkee THIMOTHY
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This study explores factors that initiate and perpetuate low skill labour migration from India to the EU, examines the migration processes and evaluates the policy prescriptions available to manage such migration flows. Based on a survey of the available quantitative and qualitative evidence, our study points to the existence of a fairly stable and persistent demand for low skilled labour in the EU, at least in the medium term. As this demand cannot be fully met from within the EU, there is and will remain a strong demand for low skilled migrant workers from non-EU countries. This offers immense scope for traditional labour sending countries like India as well as destination countries in the EU to strengthen the migration–development nexus. Unfortunately, on both sides, there seems to be an absence of a coherent and focused policy for governing migration of low skilled workers. Considering that migration of low skilled workers from India is mainly directed to the Persian Gulf, the study also makes a comparison between the existing immigration policies in EU countries and the Persian Gulf in order to draw relevant policy perspectives. Evolving appropriate policy response in relation to low skilled migration to Europe is also necessary given that a significant share of such workers end up as irregular migrants in transit or at the destination.
Year 2012
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TEMPORARY LOW-SKILLED MIGRANT WORKER PROGRAM IN KOREA: EMPLOYMENT PERMIT SCHEME

Authors Young-bum Park
Year 2016
Journal Name Arbor
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2 Journal Article

Migration from Punjab to Italy in the dairy sector : the quiet Indian revolution

Authors Paramjit SAHAI, Kathryn LUM
Description
The preference for high-skilled migrants and the relative ambivalence of countries to develop adequate policies for low-skilled migrants is often times accepted without question. The lack of information on the socio-economic impact of these low-skilled migrants on sending and receiving countries thus skews their public image. To challenge this myth of low-preference for the “low-skilled” migrant worker, the paper explores a case study of Indian Punjabi migrants in the Italian dairy industry to show that relevance of these so-called “low-skilled” migrant workers in producing “high-quality” Italian cheese.
Year 2013
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Circular Migration in Asia: Approaches and Practices

Authors Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Book Title Global Migration Issues
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4 Book Chapter

Institutional Dynamics of Regulatory Actors in the Recruitment of Migrant Workers The Case of Indonesia

Authors Moch Faisal Karim
Year 2017
Journal Name Asian Journal of Social Science
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5 Journal Article

Change of Paradigms? A Comparison of Canadian and Spanish Labour Migration Models

Authors Claudia Finotelli
Year 2013
Journal Name Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
Citations (WoS) 1
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6 Journal Article

International Labour Migration and Migration Policies in Southeast Asia

Authors Graeme Hugo
Year 2012
Journal Name Asian Journal of Social Science
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7 Journal Article

A New Portrait of Indentured Labour: Vietnamese Labour Migration to Malaysia

Authors Le Thu Huong
Year 2010
Journal Name Asian Journal of Social Science
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8 Journal Article

Points of Departure: Geographical, Historical and Theoretical Contexts

Authors Alistair Hunter
Book Title Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return
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9 Book Chapter

New Guest Worker Regimes?

Authors Michael Samers
Book Title An Anthology of Migration and Social Transformation
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10 Book Chapter

Ukrainians in the Czech Republic: On the Pathway from Temporary Foreign Workers to One of the Largest Minority Groups

Authors Yana Leontiyeva
Book Title Ukrainian Migration to the European Union
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11 Book Chapter

Developing a Knowledge Base for Policy-Making on India-EU Migration: Skill matching

Authors Göran HULTIN
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Year 2012
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12 Report

'Tai-Lao' in Australia and 'Losers' in Taiwan: the stigma of working holidaymakers in neoliberal Taiwan

Authors Pin-Yao Chiu
Year 2020
Journal Name JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES
Citations (WoS) 1
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13 Journal Article

Guest or Temporary Foreign Worker Programs

Year 2015
Book Title Handbook of the Economics of International Migration
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15 Book Chapter

The ambiguities of U.S. temporary foreign worker policy

Authors Terry L. McCoy
Year 1985
Journal Name Population Research and Policy Review
Citations (WoS) 1
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17 Journal Article

Europe 2020: Addressing Low Skill Labour Migration at Times of Fragile Recovery

Authors Anna Triandafyllidou, Sabrina Marchetti
Journal Name SSRN Electronic Journal
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18 Journal Article

Temporary migration of workers by category (mostly on low-skilled jobs), 2008-16

Authors Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Year 2018
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19 Data Set

2. How ‘Low-Skilled’ Migrant Workers Are Made

Year 2018
Book Title Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low-Waged Migrant Workers
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22 Book Chapter

Labour Migration

Authors Laura Oso, Paweł Kaczmarczyk, Justyna Salamońska
Year 2022
Book Title Introduction to Migration Studies
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23 Book Chapter

Labour, Migration and the Spatial Fix: Evidence from the UK Food Industry

Authors Sam Scott
Year 2013
Journal Name Antipode
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24 Journal Article

Opening up legal channels for temporary migration: A way to reduce human smuggling?

Authors Frank Laczko
Year 2004
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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25 Journal Article

The Temporary Nature of Ukrainian Migration: Definitions, Determinants and Consequences

Authors Marta Kindler, Agata Górny
Book Title Ukrainian Migration to the European Union
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27 Book Chapter

Low-Skilled Migrant Labor Schemes in Japan's Agriculture: Voices From the Field

Authors Glenda S. Roberts, Noriko Fujita
Year 2024
Citations (WoS) 1
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28 Journal Article

A sectorial approach to labour migration : agriculture and domestic work

Authors Anna TRIANDAFYLLIDOU
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Year 2017
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29 Report

Temporary labour migration, global redistribution, and democratic justice

Authors Patti Tamara Lenard, Christine Straehle
Year 2012
Journal Name Politics, Philosophy & Economics
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30 Journal Article

Employers' use of low-skilled migrant workers Assessing the implications for human resource management

Authors Chris Forde, Robert MacKenzie
Year 2009
Journal Name International Journal of Manpower
Citations (WoS) 7
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33 Journal Article

National Immigration and Integration Policies in Europe Since 1973

Authors María Bruquetas-Callejo, Jeroen Doomernik
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34 Book Chapter

Space of Mediation: Labour Migration, Intermediaries and the State in Indonesia and China since the Nineteenth Century

Authors Johan Lindquist, Biao Xiang
Year 2019
Journal Name Revue européenne des migrations internationales
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35 Journal Article

From Economic to Political Engagement: Analysing the Changing Role of the Turkish Diaspora

Authors Melissa Siegel, Özge Bilgili
Book Title Emigration Nations
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37 Book Chapter

Brokers and the Organization of Recruitment of 'Global Talent' by Japanese Firms-A Migration Perspective

Authors Harald Conrad, Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
Year 2018
Journal Name Social Science Japan Journal
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38 Journal Article

The bargaining power of sending countries in influencing the rights of their low skilled migrant workers

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Year 2018
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40 Project

Migrant Worker Well-Being and Its Determinants: The Case of Qatar

Authors Michael C. Ewers, Abdoulaye Diop, Kien Trung Le, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
Citations (WoS) 13
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42 Journal Article

Gendering transnational communities: a comparison of Singaporean and British migrants in China

Authors Katie Willis, Brenda Yeoh
Year 2002
Journal Name Geoforum
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43 Journal Article

Indonesia's Promotion of UN Migrant Protection Norms in ASEAN

Authors Ruji Auethavornpipat, Wayne Palmer
Year 2022
Journal Name Pacific Affairs
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45 Journal Article

Transnational contexts and local embeddedness of HIV/STI vulnerabilities among Thai and Filipino agricultural temporary foreign workers in Canada

Authors Josephine Pui-Hing Wong, Maurice Kwong, Lai Poon, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name CULTURE HEALTH & SEXUALITY
Citations (WoS) 40
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46 Journal Article

Varieties of Capitalism, Variation in Labour Immigration

Authors Camilla Devitt
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 24
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47 Journal Article

A Morning at the Dealership

Authors Stewart Manley
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Human Rights Practice
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49 Journal Article

Journey’s End? Old Age in France’s Migrant Worker Hostels

Authors Alistair Hunter
Book Title Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return
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50 Book Chapter

Ethnicity and globalisation. From migrant worker to transnational citizen.

Authors J Rex
Year 2002
Journal Name Patterns of Prejudice
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51 Journal Article

HARD TRAVELIN - THE STORY OF THE MIGRANT-WORKER - ALLSOP,K

Year 1993
Journal Name TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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52 Journal Article

Tyrants and Migrants: Authoritarian Immigration Policy

Authors Adrian J. Shin
Year 2017
Journal Name COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES
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53 Journal Article

What Role Do Low-Skilled Migrants Play in the Japanese Labor Markets?

Authors Yasushi Iguchi
Year 2012
Journal Name American Behavioral Scientist
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54 Journal Article

A natural experiment in social security as public health measure: Experiences of international students as temporary migrant workers during two Covid-19 lockdowns

Authors Faiz Ullah, Nicholas M. Harrigan
Year 2022
Journal Name SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Citations (WoS) 4
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56 Journal Article

Migrant worker policies and national privilege: A UK case study

Authors Pier-Luc Dupont
Year 2021
Journal Name Deusto Journal of Human Rights
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58 Journal Article

Does human capital raise earnings for immigrants in the low-skill labor market?

Authors Matthew Hall, George Farkas
Year 2008
Journal Name Demography
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59 Journal Article

A desk review of Sri Lankan migrant worker deaths in 2009

Authors V Jayasuriya, KAKK Wijewardena, T Pathirana
Year 2012
Journal Name Ceylon Medical Journal
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60 Journal Article

Global Labour in Rural Societies

Principal investigator Johan Fredrik Rye (Principal Investigator)
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Year 2017
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62 Project

The critical temporalities of serial migration and family social reproduction in Southeast Asia

Authors Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Theodora Lam, Bittiandra Chand Somaiah, ...
Year 2023
Citations (WoS) 3
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63 Journal Article

The art of not being caught: Temporal strategies for disciplining unfree labour in Singapore’s contract migration

Authors Sallie Yea
Year 2017
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 17
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64 Journal Article

Mobile with an agency: Negotiating the spatiotemporalities of the temp migrant worker

Authors Kristina Zampoukos, Maiken Bjerga Kiil, Hege Merete Knutsen, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 3
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66 Journal Article

The legal framework of the sponsorship systems of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait : a comparative examination

Authors Maysa ZAHRA
Description
The sponsorship system of the Arab Gulf countries comprises rules and regulations that tie the residence of a migrant worker to his/her sponsor in the country. This paper offers an in-depth examination of the legal framework of the sponsorship system of three countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. The paper looks at different aspects of the system starting with the requirement for sponsorship and ending with the rules on absconding and repatriation.
Year 2014
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67 Report

Strangers in care: using literature to re-theorise care for the oldest old

Authors Hanne Marlene Dahl
Year 2021
Citations (WoS) 3
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69 Journal Article

MIGRANT WORKER FAMILIES, CHILDREN AND YOUTHS - SITUATION ANALYSES AND MEASURES - GERMAN - WEIDACHER,A

Authors HJ HOFFMANNOWOTNY
Year 1983
Journal Name International Migration
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71 Journal Article

L’élaboration d’outils pour l’intervention auprès des travailleuses et travailleurs migrants temporaires au Québec

Authors Jorge Frozzini, Valérie Mvogo Balla
Year 2022
Journal Name Revue Organisations & territoires
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72 Journal Article

The legal framework of the sponsorship systems of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries : a comparative examination

Authors Maysa ZAHRA
Description
The sponsorship system of the Arab Gulf countries comprises rules and regulations that tie the residence of a migrant worker to his/her sponsor in the country. This paper offers an in-depth examination of the legal framework of the sponsorship system of the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ヨ Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates. It looks at different aspects of the system starting with the requirement for sponsorship and ending with the rules on absconding and repatriation.
Year 2015
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73 Report

The extension of the theory of person-organization fit toward hospitality migrant worker

Authors Hyung-Min Choi, Woo Gon Kim, Sean McGinley
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Hospitality Management
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74 Journal Article

Migrant worker inclusion and psychological well-being: Insights from the hospitality and tourism workplace

Authors Issahaku Adam, Elizabeth Agyeiwaah, Frederick Dayour
Year 2023
Citations (WoS) 3
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75 Journal Article

The Evolution of the Occupational Structure in Italy, 2007-2017

Authors Gaetano Basso
Year 2020
Journal Name SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
Citations (WoS) 4
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76 Journal Article

Family migration decision-making, step-migration and separation: children's experiences in European migrant worker families

Authors Marta Moskal, Naomi Tyrrell
Year 2016
Journal Name Children's Geographies
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77 Journal Article

Migrant workers and socio-economic changes

Authors Joko Sayono, Indah Wahyu Puji Utami, Lutfiah Ayundasari
Year 2018
Journal Name MASYARAKAT KEBUDAYAAN DAN POLITIK
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78 Journal Article

Introduction

Authors Gary Craig, Louise Waite, Hannah Lewis, ...
Book Title Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants
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80 Book Chapter

Making the case for Temporary Migrant Worker Programmes: Evidence from the UK's rural guestworker (‘SAWS’) scheme

Authors Sam Scott
Year 2015
Journal Name Journal of Rural Studies
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82 Journal Article

'Geen derderangsburgers. De risico’s voor gedetacheerde arbeidsmigranten en de Nederlandse samenleving'

Authors Adviesraad Migratie
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Year 2024
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84 Report

'Because she was born here': how children with citizenship rights affect precarious status migrant worker experiences in Canada

Authors Jason Foster
Year 2022
Journal Name International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
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85 Journal Article

Labour Migration Policy Index (LMPI)

Description
The Labour Migration Policy Index (LMPI) aims to assess on a national level the mechanisms which allow employers to meet their labour needs, and which provide favourable conditions for migrant workers. The LMPI focuses on assessing the formal rules and regulations of labour migration programmes, as opposed to actual policy implementation and migration outcomes, which are more difficult to evaluate. The LMPI considers two fields of labour migration policy -- Administration and Entry Mechanisms, and Migrant Worker Entitlements. Each of these two fields is divided into two ‘macro indicators’, for example, ‘Administrative mechanisms’ and ‘Entry mechanisms’. The LMPI only assesses migration programmes in a limited number of countries. In order to ensure some geographical balance, research has been conducted on the following thirteen countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Year 2008
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86 Data Set

Leisure as a Constraint and a Manifesto for Empowerment: The Life Story of a Chinese Female Migrant Worker

Authors Monica Z. Li, Monika Stodolska
Year 2022
Citations (WoS) 5
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87 Journal Article

'Because she was born here': how children with citizenship rights affect precarious status migrant worker experiences in Canada

Authors Jason Foster
Year 2022
Journal Name International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
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88 Journal Article

GOVERNMENTALITY, BIOPOWER AND MIGRATIONS IN CHILE: CONTRIBUTIONS OF FOUCAULDIAN THOUGHT TO THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY MIGRATIONS

Authors Gustavo Macaya-Aguirre
Year 2022
Journal Name LIMITE-REVISTA DE FILOSOFIA Y PSICOLOGIA
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89 Journal Article

The public visibility of Islam and European politics of resentment: The minarets-mosques debate

Authors Niluefer Goele
Year 2011
Journal Name Philosophy & Social Criticism
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90 Journal Article

Explaining the lack of change in Southeast Asia: the practice of migrant worker rights in the 'ASEAN migration field'

Authors Ruji Auethavornpipat
Year 2019
Journal Name International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
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91 Journal Article

Visual Encounters in Global Shanghai. On the Desirability of Bodies in a Coworking Space

Authors Aurélia M. Ishitsuka
Year 2020
Journal Name China Perspectives
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92 Journal Article

Explaining the lack of change in Southeast Asia: the practice of migrant worker rights in the 'ASEAN migration field'

Authors Ruji Auethavornpipat
Year 2019
Journal Name International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
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94 Journal Article

De-commercialization of the Labor Migration Industry in Malaysia

Authors Choo Chin Low
Year 2020
Journal Name Southeast Asian Studies
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95 Journal Article

Resource and extrinsic risk in defining fast life histories of rural Chinese left-behind children

Authors Lei Chang, Hui Jing Lu
Year 2018
Journal Name EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
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96 Journal Article

Return to Sender: Remittances, Communication and Family Conflict

Authors Alistair Hunter
Book Title Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return
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97 Book Chapter

India-EU Engagement and International Migration: Challenges and policy imperatives

Authors Basant Kumar POTNURU, Sam VISHISHTA
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Year 2012
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98 Report

Chinese migrants' work experience and city identification: Challenging the underclass thesis

Authors Stephen J. Frenkel, Chongxin Yu
Year 2015
Journal Name [Migration Policy Centre]
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99 Journal Article
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