10 years in the making, ASEAN to sign consensus on migrants’ rights in summit
A key feature of the document is to afford mechanisms for ASEAN migrants such as labor contracts and legal representation.
A key feature of the document is to afford mechanisms for ASEAN migrants such as labor contracts and legal representation.
ASEAN is missing out on achieving real economic integration if it does not recognize and allow more labor mobility – including for unskilled ones that make up the most of its migrants.
By TESS BACALLA MARILYN Sakiwat, 55, looked forward to coming home to the Philippines for good after years of working overseas, making up for lost time with her now grown-up children, and becoming a productive member of her community. This, after 26 years of toiling away in Hong Kong, hundreds of miles away from her simple