In the last decade the number of foreign workers has shot up in an attempt to fill such labour shortages and keep up impressive GDP growth. A major pull factor for migrant workers is the wage discrepancy between lowskill jobs in their home countries vis-a-vis the booming economies in the region.
These unprecedented inflows of foreign labour have brought the question of social and economic policies regulating working conditions and safeguarding migrant workers’ rights on the political agenda in Southeast Asia’s booming economies.
