The Protection of Migrant Workers’ Rights: Experiences in Malaysia and Learning from the Philippines  

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Wahyono, Sri

Jenis: Article from Books
Dalam koleksi: Are We Up to the Challenge?: Current Crises and the Asian Intellectual COmmunity (The Work of the 2005/2006 API Fellows, page 001-011.
Topik: Human Rights; Underprivileged; Protection of Migrant Workers; Migrant Workers’ Rights; Migration of Indonesian Workers; Undocumented Migrant Workers; Corrupt Practices; and Abuses of Power; Three D Jobs and Occupational Safety and Health; 3-D jobs (Dirty; Demanding and Dangerous); Unpaid Wages; Unfair Employment Contracts and Practices; Indonesian Domestic Workers and Human Trafficking; Limitations of Trade Union Membership; Philippine Migrants Rights Watch (PMRW)

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An economic boom in Malaysia in the 1970s caused a massive demand for migrant workers from neighboring countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. According to statistics from the Malaysian Immigration Department, there were 1,581,755 migrant workers who stayed and worked in Malaysia in 2005. Of the sending countries, Indonesian migrant workers held the highest rank in numbers (1,105,083). Besides legal migrant workers, many Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia are illegal workers who come into the country without legal documents (undocumented workers). The migration of Indonesian workers to Malaysia occurs because Malaysian companies can gain higher profits from Indonesian migrant workers, particularly the illegal ones who are underpaid. In many cases, illegal migrant workers can easily be deported from the country if they are not needed anymore. Since they are in a weak bargaining position with the company where they work and they lack information about the legal system in Malaysia, the rights of both legal and illegal migrant workers, especially illegal, are very vulnerable to exploitation by their employers. They bear many of the problems with rights and legal protection in labor affairs. Many Indonesian Migrant Workers are subjected to various kinds of abuse and mistreatment both from their employers and recruitment a gents. The most common types of abuse and mistreatment suffered by Indonesian workers are physical and sexual abuse, the withholding of wages, unpaid wages, being underpaid, the withholding of passports, and poor housing conditions.

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