title: International labour migration in the Asian-Pacific region: patterns, policies and economic implications.
abstract: "This paper reviews the literature on international labour migration from and within the Asian-Pacific region.  It deals with patterns and characteristics of migration flows, government policies towards labour migration, and economic implications of labour migration for both labour-exporting and importing countries in the region. The indications are that, despite gradual slowing down of labour flows to the western industrial countries and the Middle East, labour migration will continue to be a major economic influence on surplus-labour countries in the region.  As an integral part of the growth dynamism in the region, labour migration has now begun to take on a regional dimension, with immense implications for the process of industrial restructuring in high growth economies and the changing pattern of economic interdependence among countries."
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Athukorala
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Asia; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; International Migration; Labor Migration; Literature Review; Migration; Migration Policy; Oceania; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Social Policy