The report suggests that countries in Southeast Asia, a region yet to establish adequate policy guidelines or protective norms for migrants, may be failing to capitalise on a major potential source of per capita growth, with rampant inequality and rights abuses holding back economic gains.
More than 95 million people from the Asia-Pacific region live outside their birth country and more than 59 million people work as temporary migrants, according to the inter-agency UN study, “Asia-Pacific Migration in 2015”. The figures represent an enormous uptick over the past two decades and the increase is anticipated to continue.
For Myanmar, the trend has resulted in the number of migrants more than doubling between 2000 and 2013 from just over 1 million to over 2.6 million.
According to the report, more than US$229 million in remittances was sent back in 2013. (Courtesy of Myanmar Times)
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