The Cost of Legality: Navigating Labour Mobility and Exploitation in Malaysia

Through examining the experiences of Burmese migrant workers in Malaysia this paper analyses the complicated relationship between legal status and protection from violence and abuse. While legal status has often been promoted as a means to protect migrants, we suggest that legal status is actually...

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Main Authors: Anja Karlsson Franck, Joseph Trawicki Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arnold Bergstraesser Institute 2019-11-01
Series:International Quarterly for Asian Studies
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Online Access:https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqas/article/view/10288