More than half the world's population lives in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2005, Asia held 53 million on 191 million migrants in the world according to the UN Department of Public Information of Economic and Social Affairs. In the 1970s and 1980s, international migration from Asia increased dramatically. The main destinations include the oil economy in North America, Australia and the Middle East. Since the 1990s, immigrants across Asia continue to grow, especially in the newly industrialized countries carry out large-scale labor surplus less rapid growth in developed countries.
In fact, all Asian countries have experienced emigration and immigration and transit migration often. However, there may be major destination countries (Brunei, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan) to distinguish, both significant inflows and outflows (Malaysia and Thailand), the main source countries (Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia and other
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Makers to encourage temporary labor migration, but generally prohibit family reunification and permanent settlement. Although most migration in the region is temporary, long-term trends stay in some places more and more obvious.
This article will explore the major Asian immigration system: movement in Western countries, contract workers to the Middle East, Asia, internal labor mobility, the movement of highly skilled workers, student mobility and refugee flows. Most of these movements, including a large number of illegal immigrants. This often requires the license expired visa holders in the form of tourism, but people smuggling and human trafficking are also frequent.
Asian immigrants are not new: the movement westward from Central Asia in the Middle Ages helped shape the history of Europe, to Southeast Asia and Chinese immigrants dating back centuries. During the colonial period, millions of contract workers recruited, often by