This section looks at the various aspects that interconnected the flow of migration with the feminization of labor migration in the global world. The numbers of women migrating across the world have increased in the post-war period and the majority of international migrants are comprised of women (Oishi 2002, 1). According to the estimation of UN DESA (2016), the number of international migrants has tremendously increased in the past decades from 222 million in 2010 to 244 million in 2015, and out of these 75 million are hosted by Asia. However, the numbers of women have fallen from 49 percent in 2000 to 48 percent in 2015 and are slightly outnumbered by the male in the continent. The factors that contribute to the increase of international
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And through the years, migration has changed its context and the majority of the countries in the Global South are experiencing migration as a strategic component in the development of their social-economic situations. The definition of migrants is those who lives outside of their country of usual residence. International migration can be classified into four categories which are permanent migration, temporary migration, irregular migration and forced migration (United Nations 2016). Oishi argued that temporary migration has formed a large component of international migration both in Asia and around the world. However, industrialized countries like the North America tend to accept a large number of Asian immigrants, however, larger numbers of Asian migrants end up in other Asian countries. This shows that industrialized countries has often put up restriction policies toward low-skilled and unskilled workers and therefore, flow immigrants is plausible to be lesser in the industrialized countries than in the developing countries (Oishi 2005, 4). Developing countries in South-East Asia tend to have similar ‘push factors’ which are high unemployment, low wages, and poverty; and these factors contributes and encourages emigration (Oishi 2005,
And through the years, migration has changed its context and the majority of the countries in the Global South are experiencing migration as a strategic component in the development of their social-economic situations. The definition of migrants is those who lives outside of their country of usual residence. International migration can be classified into four categories which are permanent migration, temporary migration, irregular migration and forced migration (United Nations 2016). Oishi argued that temporary migration has formed a large component of international migration both in Asia and around the world. However, industrialized countries like the North America tend to accept a large number of Asian immigrants, however, larger numbers of Asian migrants end up in other Asian countries. This shows that industrialized countries has often put up restriction policies toward low-skilled and unskilled workers and therefore, flow immigrants is plausible to be lesser in the industrialized countries than in the developing countries (Oishi 2005, 4). Developing countries in South-East Asia tend to have similar ‘push factors’ which are high unemployment, low wages, and poverty; and these factors contributes and encourages emigration (Oishi 2005,