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Author : Wayne Joseph Palmer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Emigration and immigration law
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Author : Wayne Palmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004325484
In Indonesia's Overseas Labour Migration Programme, 1969-2010, Wayne Palmer offers for the first time a detailed, critical analysis of the way in which Indonesia's Overseas Labour Migration Programme is managed and how that fits with other developments within the Indonesian government. Commonly portrayed as a corrupt bunch of officials out to line their own pockets at the expense of migrant workers' welfare, here we are shown that they also make exceptions to rules when the law and political climate are not on their side. Wayne Palmer used interviews with over 120 officials in six Indonesian provinces and three diplomatic missions in the Asia-Pacific region to understand motivations for corrupt and other illegal behaviour.
Author : Michele Ford
Publisher : ILR Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501735152
What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand were uniformly hostile towards foreign workers, but Ford deftly shows how times and attitudes have begun to change. Now, she argues, NGOs and the Global Union Federations are encouraging local unions to represent and advocate for these peripheral workers, and in some cases succeeding. From 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. Ford examines the relationship between different kinds of labor movement actors and the constraints imposed on those actors by resource flows, contingency, and local context. Her conclusions show that in countries—Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand—where resource flows and local factors give the Global Union Federations more influence local unions have become much more engaged with migrant workers. But in countries—Japan and Taiwan, for example—where they have little effect there has been little progress. While much has changed, Ford forces us to see that labor migration in Asia is still fraught with complications and hardships, and that local unions are not always able or willing to act.
Author : Olivia Killias
Publisher : Gendering Asia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788776942267
This fascinating study unveils the workings of the Indonesian migration regime, one that sends hundreds of thousands of women abroad as domestic workers each year. Drawing on extended ethnographic research since 2007, the book literally follows migrant women from a matrilocal village in upland Central Java, women who actively place themselves in a position to enter the migration pipeline, knowing that their lives abroad will be hard and even dangerous, and that staying in the village is an option. From recruitment by local brokers to the 'training' received in secluded camps in Jakarta, employment in gated middle-class homes within Indonesia and in Malaysia and back home again, Olivia Killias tracks the moral, social, economic and legal processes by which women are turned into 'maids'. The author's analysis uncovers the colonial genealogies of contemporary domestic worker migration and demonstrates that, ironically, the legalization of the migration industry does not automatically improve the situation of the women in its care.0Rather, Killias unmasks the gendered moralizing discourses on 'illegal' migration and 'trafficking' as legitimizing indentured labour and constraining migrant mobility. By exploring the workings of the Indonesian state's overseas legal labour migration regime for migrants, she brings the reader directly into the nerve-racking lives of migrant village women, and reveals the richness and ambiguity of their experiences, going beyond stereotypical representations of them as 'victims of trafficking'.
Author : Nilim Baruah
Publisher : International Org. for Migration
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Aims to assist states in their efforts to develop new policy approaches, solutions and practical measures for better management of labour migration in countries of origin and of destination. Analyses effective policies and practices and draws on examples from OSCE participating States as well as other countries that have experience in this field.
Author : Sylvia Yazid
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN :
This thesis investigates the work of two Indonesian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) concerned with Indonesian women who work overseas in the informal sector, mostly as domestic workers. It concentrates on examining the efforts made by a women's NGO, Solidaritas Perempuan and a migrant workers NGO, Migrant CARE, in influencing a domestic policy, Law No. 39/2004 and a foreign policy, the 2006 MoU between the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia. The research is sited in the changing context of Indonesia's Reformasi Era, a period dominated by democratisation and globalisation processes. This research demonstrates how the NGOs have been able to put the issue of women migrant workers on the policy agenda and to a certain degree become involved in the initial stage of the policy making process. It also shows that the NGOs have not been able to significantly influence the policy products. Nevertheless, as the research progresses, it becomes more obvious that with Indonesia's democratisation still at its early stage, the more significant matter is whether the NGOs have been able to adapt and adjust to the new policy context, determine their role within the labour migration system, build their capacities, and formulate a comprehensive strategy: all these are needed for their activism to excel.Furthermore, for the NGOs researched, the challenge has also been how to find alternative channels and ways to significantly influence policies on labour migration. Parts of this thesis illustrate this effort, which includes engaging accommodative state entities, expanding partnerships and networks, and using other related policies and regional and international instruments. Since it is unlikely that there will be a significant policy change in the near future, the search is likely to continue.This research starts with the hypothesis that the NGOs can actually negotiate and expand their political space. My investigation shows that the expansion of their space is determined not only by their own efforts but also by changes in the environment, allowance from other actors, and changes on the part of key actors, particularly the government. The thesis also argues that both the government and the NGOs have gone through a process of learning how to interact with each other within the new policy environment which involves negotiations and adjustments on both sides. Through this learning process, the NGOs have also come to realize that some initiatives, such as transnational activism, which appeared to be a promising alternative, may not bring the initially expected result. In understanding NGOs' responses to democratisation and globalisation in Indonesia, this thesis critically assesses the efforts made by two NGOs to significantly influence Indonesia's domestic and foreign policies on labour migration. It argues that changes in the policy context and within state institutions, more accommodative attitudes from key stakeholders and the NGOs' efforts to adapt to the changes around them have gained them wider political space to conduct their activism.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
There are almost 200 million migrants in the world today. The majority of people leaving their home countries are migrating for work and almost half of them are women. The contribution of these workers is evident, yet many work in unacceptable conditions, denied access to social protection and their labour rights. With its mandate on all labour issues, the ILO has built up a wealth of knowledge on migration for employment, in terms of both original research and the rich experience of its Members - governments, employers and trade unions - in dealing with migrant workers. Drawing on these unique resources, this book offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of international labour migration and the ILO's efforts to protect migrant workers through a rights-based approach. This book gives new insights into the factors that motivate people to seek work outside their country of origin and the significant development effects on both origin and destination countries. Exposing the often limited access of migrant workers to their fundamental rights at work, the book describes in detail the international norms that have evolved to protect migrant workers and ensure decent work for all. It reflects on existing and potential international governance structures and addresses linkages between migration and development. The book reviews the ILO's Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration and discusses its role in improving policy-making and upgrading international cooperation in the area of labour migration. Book jacket.
Author : Edimon Ginting
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9292610791
The book focuses on Indonesia's most pressing labor market challenges and associated policy options to achieve higher and more inclusive economic growth. The challenges consist of creating jobs for and the skills in a youthful and increasingly better educated workforce, and raising the productivity of less-educated workers to meet the demands of the digital age. The book deals with a range of interrelated topics---the changing supply and demand for labor in relation to the shift of workers out of agriculture; urbanization and the growth of megacities; raising the quality of schooling for new jobs in the digital economy; and labor market policies to improve both labor standards and productivity.
Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2021-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781646794973
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789290147800
More workers are crossing national borders to look for jobs than ever before. Many migrants seek overseas employment with the help of agents or intermediaries. These "merchants of labour" include relatives who finance a migrant's trip, provide housing and arrange for a job abroad; public employment services; and private recruitment agencies. They also comprise an insalubrious underworld of smugglers and traffickers. The agents who recruit and deploy migrant workers are at the heart of the evolving migration infrastructure, i.e. the network of business and personal ties that is creating a global labour market. This book highlights best practices in the activities and regulation of these merchants of labour as well as innovative strategies to protect migrant workers, underlining the contribution of ILO standards. It covers a broad range of national and regional experiences and puts "merchants of labour" in the wider context of changing employment relationships in globalizing labour markets. The papers it contains are an important contribution to understanding a major mechanism facilitating the growth of the migrant labour force.