Foreign Worker Essay

Chapter 1.0

1.1 Overview of foreign worker in Malaysia

Malaysia is one of the countries that have multi-ethnic society which is such as Malay, India, Chinese, and other races. The early of migration of labor from Indonesian archipelago has been started when there are the interaction and exchange with Malay Peninsula and during that period, it has been called as Indo-Malay World. British and Malay authorities welcomed the migrant of Indonesian labor to Malay Peninsula during the most recent colonial past. The reason British and Malay authorities want the Indonesian migrant to Malay Peninsula is because want to meet the manpower to fulfill the requirements of colonial enterprise. There are another reason that Malay Peninsula welcomes the Indonesian

This is because they help to growth our country economy and we also can help their country to growth. If we recruit the foreign worker from other country, then this will help both countries interdependent. This is because when we recruit the foreign worker from other country, then we will solve the problem of labor shortage in our country and the foreign worker will help our economy in some sectors that Malaysian are not really want to involve such as: plantation, construction, and others. Then, the foreign country also can solve the problem of unemployment. Therefore, when foreign worker come to Malaysia, this will help both country will interdependent with each

It is difficult to done a wide range of research about foreign worker issue within a limited timeframe given. So, the scope of this thesis was narrowed down to identify the problem facing by foreign workers in Malaysia and to identify the recommendations to overcome these problems.

This research was generally based on the legal foreign labor in Malaysia and some of the sensitive question will be asking during interview section. This is because can get the more detail about what is the real problem that they really face.

Therefore, the interview will be conducted to collect the primary data to answer the objectives that I have set up.

1.6 Research Methodology

There are two types of research which is primary data and secondary data. For the primary data, the data need to collect by the investigator/researcher by themselves. This is because the researcher knows that what does he/she is looking for and they able to collect the data which is specific to their research question. However, for the secondary data, it is the data that collected by someone else for other purpose and it will used by the researcher or investigator for other purpose. This secondary data is easy for the researcher or investigator because they no need to collect the data due to the data already done by other persons. But, they are also problem raise in this secondary data because some company will sell the