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The Social Dilemmas Of Migration In Malaysia

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INTRODUCTION “Malaysia, truly Asia” is a motto launched by the Tourism Malaysia since 1999 to promote Malaysia as one of the exceptional tourist destinations in the world. Since then, Malaysia has brought tourists more than 7.4 million from all over the world (Munan 2002). Ironically, the motto is not only capturing the essence of the country’s unique diversity, but also illustrates the social dilemma of the immigrant labors faced by the country. Owing to its inclusive connotation, this motto becomes the unofficial nation-branding to portray the harmony, cultural and culinary diversity, nature, modernity, and hospitality of the country (Bouchon 2012). However, Malaysia is not only magnetizing tourists, but somehow flocked many immigrants to settle in Malaysia for a living and hoping for a better life (Lek 2016).
The purpose of this paper is to put on view the various dilemmas of migration faced not only by Malaysian government, non-governmental organization and civil society, but also to unveil the struggles of the foreign immigrant in coping with the policies and responses from the country. The aim of this research study is to improve understanding of migration in Malaysian context and on top of that to reflection upon the matter in relation to poverty, oppression and injustice in the promotion of sustainable development and human dignity.

Keywords: Migration, Malaysia, foreign labor, workers

BRIEF STATISTICS OF FOREIGN LABOR IN MALAYSIA
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