The Diplomat, Taiwan, 27 June 2018 - Taiwan has a migrant labor exploitation problem, as evidenced by a spate of protests that have occurred on behalf of migrant workers in Taiwan in recent months.
Taiwan News, Taiwan, 3 July 2021 - Migrant workers in Taiwan have been exploited and treated as "scapegoats" for spreading COVID-19, a Taiwan-based Canadian reporter claims.
The Straits Times, Taiwan, 7 July 2021 - Migrant workers in Taiwan are crying foul over recent restrictions imposed on them to contain a rise in Covid-19 cases in the tech industry. Many say they are victims of discrimination.
Focus Taiwan, Taiwan, 1 September 2021 - The working age population in Taiwan shrank for the first time since the country started conducting regular population censuses seven decades ago, indicating the impact of an aging society, according to statistics released by the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) on Tuesday.
Focus Taiwan, Indonesia, 22 December 2020 - A number of issues relating to the supply of Indonesian migrant workers to Taiwan will be discussed Wednesday in a virtual meeting between officials of the two countries, the relevant national agency in Jakarta said Tuesday.
Taiwan News, Taiwan, 21 December 2020 - Taiwan and Indonesia will prepare this week for a meeting to be held before 2021 regarding migrant worker settlement costs, which will be an extra burden on Taiwanese employers once Jarkata's new labor regulations go into effect on Jan. 1.
Focus Taiwan, Taiwan, 24 December 2020 - Officials from Taiwan and Indonesia will convene in two weeks to resolve disputes regarding to the recruitment costs for Indonesian migrant workers after a meeting on Wednesday left a number of issues pending, according to Deputy Minister of Labor Affairs Lin San-quei.
Focus Taiwan, Taiwan, 11 March 2021 - Taiwan and Indonesia are scheduled to hold a fresh round of talks later this month in a bid to resolve a dispute over the latter's pending policy on placement fees for its migrant workers, Minister of Labor Hsu Ming-chun (許銘春) said Thursday.
Focus Taiwan News Channel, Taiwan, 13 December 2018 - Indonesian Minister of Manpower (MOM) Hanif Dhakiri is expected to arrive in Taiwan later Thursday to meet with Labor Minister Hsu Ming-chun and witness the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Friday.
Equal Times, Taiwan, 30 July 2021 - Taiwan may be at the tail-end of its worst Covid outbreak since the pandemic began, but migrant workers are still facing draconian lockdown measures that rights advocates describe as “discriminatory”. Between mid-May and mid-July, over 14,000 people in Taiwan were infected with the coronavirus, compared with a total number of 1,199 cases since the pandemic broke out in February 2020 up until May 2021. The outbreak hit some of the dormitories which house South-East Asian employees at several tech companies based in Miaoli County particularly badly, and in response, the local government forbade migrant workers from going outside except to go to work between 7-28 June. As these rules did not apply to the general population, advocates have condemned these measures, which they say highlights the way in which the Taiwan government fails migrant factory workers and has created a three-decade-long, legally mandated two-tier society thanks to the country’s labour brokerage system.
The Sun Daily, Taiwan, 17 December 2019 - “You want a child or you want a job?” As ultimatums go, it was stark — but migrant workers say such life-changing dilemmas are on the rise in Taiwan as thousands of domestic labourers are drawn to the country by the promise of work, at times with only a veil of rights.
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Author: SAFERWORLD
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2016
Category: Research
Tajikistan is the poorest country in Central Asia and is still affected by multiple internal challenges, a legacy of 1992-97 civil war. The country attracted international attention in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, when the international military coalition in Afghanistan sought to secure political support and logistical routes in the region and to prevent a spillover of the conflict. Later, the prospect and then the actual withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force from Afghanistan generated a lot of interest and debate, notably with regards to potential risks for Central Asian states, and especially Tajikistan given its geographic proximity with Afghanistan. While analyses differ on the relevance of the spillover threat from Afghanistan into Tajikistan, one external factor seems to be more pressing for Tajikistan’s stability and development: labour migration.
A stagnating economy and lack of employment opportunities in the country, among other reasons, led more than one million Tajiks to seasonal labour migration - primarily to Russia - as a survival strategy. However, the geopolitical and socio-economic challenges Russia is facing is causing many to question whether labour migration to Russia is a viable source of income. And although labour migration has provided a certain level of stability to the people and the government of Tajikistan, a severe economic crisis and political stagnation within the country risks putting its already fragile social, economic and governance structures under more strain.
In the framework of the European Union-funded ‘Capacities for Peace’ project, Saferworld accompanied a group of civil society organisations from Tajikistan to analyse dynamics around labour migration in the country. This briefing provides an overview of workshop discussions, as well as follow-up research (in Dushanbe, Khatlon, Gorno-Badakhshan and Sughd regions), between June 2014 and September 2015.
Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia, 28 January 2022 - Klang MP Charles Santiago has urged the government to delve deeper into the 25 Bangladeshi recruitment agents and their 10 sub-agents tasked with the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia.
The Japan Times, Japan, 22 June 2018 - The government’s decision to create a new visa status for foreign workers to fill the domestic manpower shortage represents a major change in Japan’s strict immigration policy that has in principle prohibited foreigners from engaging in unskilled labor. With its rapidly aging and declining population, the nation needs to sustain its workforce. This is a step in the right direction and a welcome change from the policy of trying to fill manpower needs through the Technical Intern Training Program and work provided by students from overseas. The challenge going forward will be how Japan can attract enough foreign workers as competition among countries to secure labor from abroad is set to intensify.
Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia, 17 February 2022 - A rights activist has urged plantation industries and commodities minister Zuraida Kamaruddin to take a firmer stand against forced labour than is apparent from her recent statement on the issue.
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