Blog 5: Migrants Struggle in the Shadows of Asia’s Rising Tide of Inequality

                In the article Migrants Struggle in the Shadows of Asia’s Rising Tide of Inequality, the author, Michelle Chen, is trying to address the issue that inequality of the workers and owners of companies are far greater than what they should be. In Asia there is an emerging economy but with that emerging economy also brings a downward spiral for the labor migration. Not only in Asia, but all over the world the low-wage migrant workers are not being paid accordingly, some not being paid for up to four months because the owners of the companies are not able to afford to pay them. The working conditions that these migrant workers are working in are far from reasonable. They often experience along with low wages, poor nutrition, small working and living quarters, and sometimes abuse of the owners. Chen concludes her article stating that justice and equality for migrant workers will remain out of reach across the world until authority steps in and tries to make a difference.

                As Chen said this inequality gap is seen all across the world. Migrants go to work for owners of large companies. These companies often need a lot of people that will work for very little in return. The owners of these large companies are reaping the benefits of being able to pay these migrant workers so little. They see the money constantly coming in making their pockets deeper while the workers are not even being paid enough to get by. I am afraid to say but, this kind of inequality is going to continue to exist across the world as long as there is a demand for cheap labor. Owners of companies know that if they can move a company to another country then they will be able to pay workers far less where people are going to be willing to work for dirt cheap. Unless governmental authority decides to step in and take action the people on the top are going to continue to prosper and the inequality between them and the migrant workers is going to continue to grow.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-chen/migrants-struggle-in-the-_b_1278582.html