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Costs and Benefits of Cross-Country Labour Migration in the GMS / ed. by Hossein Jalilian.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789814345330
  • 9789814311908
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.12791 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF FIGURES, TABLES, AND BOXES -- List of Contributors -- 1 Migrants of the Mekong Wins and Losses -- 2 ECONOMIC COSTS AND BENEFITS OF LABOUR MIGRATION Case of Cambodia -- 3 ECONOMIC COSTS AND BENEFITS OF LABOUR MIGRATION Case of Lao PDR -- 4 Economic Costs and Benefits of Labour Migration Case of Thailand -- 5 Economic Costs and Benefits of Labour Migration Case of Vietnam -- 6 Migrants of the Mekong Lessons -- Index
Summary: International labour migration can be characterized in three ways - as human aspiration, tradition, and necessity. For some people, working overseas is a dream. For others, international labour mobility is a tradition. For a great number of people however, international labour migration is an economic necessity. It is the only viable solution to realize their basic human right to a decent life. GMS worker movements to Thailand typify all three characterizations of international labour mobility. While this book focuses on the economic dimensions of international labour emigration, principally from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam to Thailand, it recognizes at the very outset the equal standing of non-economic motivations for migration.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF FIGURES, TABLES, AND BOXES -- List of Contributors -- 1 Migrants of the Mekong Wins and Losses -- 2 ECONOMIC COSTS AND BENEFITS OF LABOUR MIGRATION Case of Cambodia -- 3 ECONOMIC COSTS AND BENEFITS OF LABOUR MIGRATION Case of Lao PDR -- 4 Economic Costs and Benefits of Labour Migration Case of Thailand -- 5 Economic Costs and Benefits of Labour Migration Case of Vietnam -- 6 Migrants of the Mekong Lessons -- Index

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International labour migration can be characterized in three ways - as human aspiration, tradition, and necessity. For some people, working overseas is a dream. For others, international labour mobility is a tradition. For a great number of people however, international labour migration is an economic necessity. It is the only viable solution to realize their basic human right to a decent life. GMS worker movements to Thailand typify all three characterizations of international labour mobility. While this book focuses on the economic dimensions of international labour emigration, principally from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam to Thailand, it recognizes at the very outset the equal standing of non-economic motivations for migration.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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