unemployment among the local people. In addition, our economy is dependent on oil and gas production, but such resources are not going to last. Consequently, our country must think of ways to find sources of income besides the national economy and the sale of oil and gas. So, why do we use local people to do everything for the sake of development of our country? The money we invest not in vain if the locals from the foreigners invested. With this, the economy will not depreciate and the country will be stable
Sabah has been the recipient of countless migrants for centuries. The most recent of these are largely Indonesians and Filipinos who come for economic reasons. The current economic turmoil has affected the capacity of the state to provide employment to both local and foreign workers. The Sabah experience suggests that a more systematic approach is needed to regulate the flow of migrant labor in the region. But for this to succeed, the support and cooperation of all the relevant parties would be essential
One of the causes of prejudice against migrant workers is xenophobia that is experienced by Malaysians. Malaysians are xenophobic because they feel unsafe with the influx of immigrant workers. The government’s idea to admit another 1.5 million Bangladeshis into the Malaysian workforce has caused a stir within the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) additionally among the Malaysians. Considering the quantity of labourers from Bangladesh officially here in
the moment, Malaysia is estimated to have 2.2 million legal migrant workers in year 2015 (MTUC, 2015). According to Watanabe (2003), there is no doubt that Malaysia is one of the countries with a large number of foreign workers and that her economy is highly dependent on foreign workers. In order to curb with the huge demand from consumers and customers, most of the manufacturing companies in Penang, Malaysia, has resorted to hiring migrant workers in order temporary to solve labour shortages. According
In recent issue, refugees’ rights have been heatedly argued and debated on the Internet and in the newspapers. The citizens have been questioning the status of refugees, it is either they are going to resettle or they are only migrants. There are some reasons why some countries would not take in refugees into their countries. First of all, they might think that the refugees will consume the already scarce amount of country’s resources. Kugel (2015) has found that a significant number of the Syrian