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Restructuring Foreign Worker Policy and Community Transformation in Malaysia
Die Restrukturierung der Arbeitsmigrationspolitik und Transformation der malaysischen nationalen Gemeinschaft
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Abstract Malaysia is one of the most rapidly growing economies in Asia and is blessed with foreign workers inflow to sustain the economic growth process. However, the strong national sentiments among the local community, which harbors ill perception towards the foreign workers, lead to regrettably vague poli... mehr
Malaysia is one of the most rapidly growing economies in Asia and is blessed with foreign workers inflow to sustain the economic growth process. However, the strong national sentiments among the local community, which harbors ill perception towards the foreign workers, lead to regrettably vague policies concerning foreign workers. As far as this issue is concerned, Malaysia needs to reform the policy regulations so that foreign workers will be able to integrate into the economic transformation of the country. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the current regulations regarding foreign workers policy in Malaysia. Arguably, foreign worker regulations can be improved by referring to Malaysia’s past experience and copy the models of other foreign-workers-friendly countries. A process-oriented methodology was adopted in this study to understand the issues associated with foreign workers, community transformation, and policy implementation. The result of this study shows that superior implementation and enforcement of foreign labor regulations would lead to harmonization and transformation of the community.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Südostasien; ausländischer Arbeitnehmer; öffentliche Meinung; Ausländerpolitik; Arbeitsrecht; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Wirtschaftswachstum; Arbeitsmigration; Malaysia; Integration
Klassifikation
Migration
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
community transformation; process-oriented; capability approach; path-dependence; socio-cultural
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 348-368
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 42 (2017) 3
Heftthema
Forum: Community Transformation in Asian Societies: Selected Case Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.42.2017.3.348-368
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)