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Undocumented workers during Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO)

Malaysia has a significant population of migrant labour force. Out of the 5.5 million migrant workers in the country, more than half are reported to be undocumented, with the state of Sabah being home to the highest population of undocumented migrant workers majority from the Philippines and Indones...

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Main Authors: Diana Peters, Marja Azlima Omar, Ramli Dollah, Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Transnational Press London 2022
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HV640-645 Refugee problems
JV6001-9480 Emigration and immigration. International migration
Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33534/1/Undocumented%20workers%20during%20Malaysia%E2%80%99s%20Movement%20Control%20Order%20%28MCO%29%20_ABSTRACT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33534/
https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/article/view/1280
https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v19i2.1280
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spelling my.ums.eprints.335342022-07-26T07:44:31Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33534/ Undocumented workers during Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO) Diana Peters Marja Azlima Omar Ramli Dollah Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan HV640-645 Refugee problems JV6001-9480 Emigration and immigration. International migration Malaysia has a significant population of migrant labour force. Out of the 5.5 million migrant workers in the country, more than half are reported to be undocumented, with the state of Sabah being home to the highest population of undocumented migrant workers majority from the Philippines and Indonesia. Since the 1970s the scale of migration increased drastically with the arrival of large number of Muslim refugees from the war-torn southern Philippines, and economic migrants from rural areas of Indonesia, in hopes of achieving better economic and food security. This steady flow of foreign labour also coincided with the state’s economic development plan which saw labour intensive sectors such as constructions, plantation and timber boom. However, when the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread in Malaysia, job opportunities drastically reduced as the government pulled the brakes on almost all economic sectors and closed off the borders. The Movement Controlled Order (MCO) announced nationwide beginning 18 March 2020 thus increased the vulnerability of the undocumented irregular migrants, as the economic threat in the form of loss of wages and movement restrictions decreased the food security of this group. Transnational Press London 2022 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33534/1/Undocumented%20workers%20during%20Malaysia%E2%80%99s%20Movement%20Control%20Order%20%28MCO%29%20_ABSTRACT.pdf Diana Peters and Marja Azlima Omar and Ramli Dollah and Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan (2022) Undocumented workers during Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO). Migration Letters, 19. pp. 107-121. ISSN 1741-8984 (P-ISSN) , 1741-8992 (E-ISSN) https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/article/view/1280 https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v19i2.1280
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topic HV640-645 Refugee problems
JV6001-9480 Emigration and immigration. International migration
spellingShingle HV640-645 Refugee problems
JV6001-9480 Emigration and immigration. International migration
Diana Peters
Marja Azlima Omar
Ramli Dollah
Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan
Undocumented workers during Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO)
description Malaysia has a significant population of migrant labour force. Out of the 5.5 million migrant workers in the country, more than half are reported to be undocumented, with the state of Sabah being home to the highest population of undocumented migrant workers majority from the Philippines and Indonesia. Since the 1970s the scale of migration increased drastically with the arrival of large number of Muslim refugees from the war-torn southern Philippines, and economic migrants from rural areas of Indonesia, in hopes of achieving better economic and food security. This steady flow of foreign labour also coincided with the state’s economic development plan which saw labour intensive sectors such as constructions, plantation and timber boom. However, when the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread in Malaysia, job opportunities drastically reduced as the government pulled the brakes on almost all economic sectors and closed off the borders. The Movement Controlled Order (MCO) announced nationwide beginning 18 March 2020 thus increased the vulnerability of the undocumented irregular migrants, as the economic threat in the form of loss of wages and movement restrictions decreased the food security of this group.
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author Diana Peters
Marja Azlima Omar
Ramli Dollah
Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan
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Marja Azlima Omar
Ramli Dollah
Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan
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title Undocumented workers during Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO)
title_short Undocumented workers during Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO)
title_full Undocumented workers during Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO)
title_fullStr Undocumented workers during Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO)
title_full_unstemmed Undocumented workers during Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO)
title_sort undocumented workers during malaysia’s movement control order (mco)
publisher Transnational Press London
publishDate 2022
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33534/1/Undocumented%20workers%20during%20Malaysia%E2%80%99s%20Movement%20Control%20Order%20%28MCO%29%20_ABSTRACT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33534/
https://journals.tplondon.com/ml/article/view/1280
https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v19i2.1280
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