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The Asia-Pacific region comprises 57.7% of the world population and is therefore of great importance to the discussion of global migration. International migration has a long history in the region, but only recently it has acquired an unprecedented scale, diversity and significance. The cultural, ethnic, political, religious and economic complexity of the Asia-Pacific region as well as its vast size makes it difficult to come to general conclusions about international migration. A closer analysis of Asia over the last two decades reveals the extent to which international mobility of one kind or another has entered the calculation of life chances of a much larger proportion of Asians. Many Asian workers have adopted undocumented migration strategies partly as a response to the barriers being erected by destination countries to labour migration, often in the face of a manifest demand for workers. The region is the pre-eminent source of the world’s contract labour migrants. |
