5. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: PROBLEM AND LONG TERM PERSPECTIVE Illegal immigration has tasselled the social, political and economic scenario of the country and is one of the gruelling problem of the country. For social consequences, environmental degradation is always a concern. There was a huge decline of forest area in North-Eastern part for the purpose of settlement. As a matter of fact, in Assam the forest area has declined form 39% in 1951 to 30% in 2011. Besides this, there is also a jeopardy of
immigrant workers from Asian countries in Malaysia? Immigrant workers as of now originate from more than 12 nations in Asia, with a large number of them originating from Indonesia. Other real source nations are incorporated of workers from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Philippines (Jr. 1). In 1990 there were around 380,000 immigrant workers in Malaysia as Labour Force Survey (LFS) information. The number expanded to around 2.1 million in 2010. Implying that 25%
residing currently. Immigrants constituted an economic form of migration, refugees a political form. This excludes them from mainstream country life. Sense of nation was developed and they were seen as illegal. The number and plight of refugees also increased due to formation of new state. People who left for other country generally which have better economic conditions, did not given any citizenship rights. One of the largest migrations in history, nearly 10 million people migrated, took place at
(2012)) " From previous studies, the Malaysian Government has relied on foreign worker from 1980 late, but there was not a comprehensive policy on the recruitment and placement of migrant workers. Malaysia is a multiracial country as significant migration(Castles and Miller, 1998; Dannecker, 2005). Clearly economic growth in the country created many jobs for the 28
CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW IMMIGRANTIONS 11. Migration of people is old as recorded history of the world. From the ancient history migrants find some reason to move from a country to another. The reasons may be safety, food, shelter or any other personal requirement. Migration has both positive and negative impacts for both countries which are involved. As many other human activities, migration also has increased rapidly and it has grabbed the world attention today. For many countries it has
between 35 % and 65% of the labor force; and contributes between 20 % and 40% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in developing countries (Braun and Laoyza, 1994). According to Timalsina (2007), in most developing countries such as India, Nepal, Bangladesh and some Sub-Saharan African countries like Zimbabwe, Malawi, about half of the urban employed population works in the informal trading i.e. street vending since the entrance to this activity is easy. According to Skinner (2008) a critical factor
recreational space of three residential areas of Dhaka: Gulshan, Niketon and South Badda. Regardless of its earmark in the plan of Gulshan Model Town of 1962, Gulshan South Park remained as the most hideous public park on account of 25-year long illegal occupancy. In 2010, the city government
The British annexed the region after an 1824-26 conflict and encouraged migration from India. Since independence in 1948, successive Burmese governments have considered these migration flows as illegal. Claiming that the Rohingya are in fact Bengalis, they have refused to recognize them as citizens. Shortly after General Ne Win and his Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) seized power
The first impact of the influx of a large number of migrant workers on the Malaysian economy is the air pollution increase. If the migrant increase, the population increase. The net migration in Kuala Lumpur is 25700 from 1991-1997 (Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, 2015). One of the major effect on contributing on air pollution is increasing in population. One of the major factor that contribute to air pollution is increasing in population ( Azeez, 2009). This means if the population large, the motor
– Final Draft 11/11/2014 Human trafficking is one of the many serious issues discussed about in the world. Trafficking refers to illegal buying and selling of individuals for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor or simply servitude. It is one of the fastest growing and most lucrative crimes of the world, which only comes second after the illegal drug trade. Hundreds and thousands of all groups of people including men, boys, women and girls are targeted; however, it is revealed