All over Asia, many poor migrant worker's are being cheated out of wages and promised good-paying jobs overseas only to find out the complete opposite once they have immigrated. Thousands immigrate from Bangladesh each year, to parts of Asia and Africa, in hopes of a better future. But recent reports show that many of them will not make it back to the homelands alive, with the illegal immigrant system being ran by an underground "manpower" looking to get paid by transporting them. Many migrant workers become alienated in the new host country and are the target of hostility from the nationals who see them as economic competition, making it hard for the them to survive, and stranding them in a foreign land. Because they are promised good fortune abroad, work that pays good money for them to support their families, they take out loans in order to migrate which forces them to stay in the vicious cycle of migrant worker exploitation as they become dependent on any work they can get. Even in Thailand, the deep sea fishing industry has caused many men and boys from Burma, Cambodia, and Laos to be condemned to pretty much slavery with poor working and living conditions, low pay, poor nutrition, and round the clock working hours. All through out the world where migrant labor is promoted, worker exploitation and abuses are taking place. In Kuwait, Philippine immigrants who had immigrated for work were found to have been abused and sexually assaulted by their employers, but the Kuwait authorities claimed the workers are not protected because they are not legal migrants. Although there are international Human Rights laws in place, they are not protecting the rights of migrant workers. Worker abuses are still continuing to take place all around the world. Migration and labor laws in many of these countries are not being regulated and enforced. If anything, cheap foreign labor is being promoted and false hopes are being created for these poor workers, so much so, that many traffickers are pushing slavery and law makers aren't doing anything to stop it, just turning a cold shoulder by ignoring the reality of what is happening in their countries. And of course, this is not just happening in Asia, it is an upward trend all around the world, including the US, and worker exploitation, alienation, low wages for hard work, and violence are becoming the main theme when we talk about global migration.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-chen/migrants-struggle-in-the-_b_1278582.html
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