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Migrant women workers from Asia
Asia to Asia labor
Each year about 100,000 women
leave Asia'a developing economies
to work in domestic service, hotels
or factories in the older industrial
economies of the region.
East Asia entertainers' trade
Each year about 50,000 women leave
the Philippines and Thailand to work in
the entertainment and prostitution
industries in Japan and, most recently ,
in South Korea.
early 2000
main migrant-sending countries
main migrant-receiving countries
both
other countries
routes of migration
In 2003,
the UAE granted an average of
300 visas every day to women from
South-East Asia to meet the demand for an
average of three domestic workers
per UAE household.
KYRGYZST AN
NORTH KOREA
T AJIKIST AN
JAPAN
SOUTH KOREA
IRAQ
AFGHANIST AN
CHINA
IRAN
KUWAIT
PAKIST AN
NEPAL
BHUT AN
BAHRIN
HONG KONG
SAR
BANGLADESH
UAE
SAUDI
ARABIA
INDIA
T AIWAN
OMAN
BURMA
LAOS
YEMEN
THAILAND
COMBODIA
VIETNAM
PHILIPPINES
ETHIOPIA
BRUNEI
SRI LANKA
MALA YSIA
SOMALIA
SINGAPORE
INDONESIA
Figure 4-14
International female labor migration from and within Asia in 2008. From JoniSeager, Penguin
Atlas of W omen in the W orld, 4th edition, 2009, p. 72-3. Reprinted courtesy of Penguin Books.
countries is producing an acute shortage of trained
health-care providers in those countries.
Many international migrants are students who are
pursuing degrees in higher education. Some remain in
their host country but most return home. The number of
Indian students in American graduate schools is declin-
ing as India' s institutions of higher education have been
significantly ungraded. Brain drain refers to the process
whereby developing countries lose their most educated
people to jobs overseas.
 
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