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Economic globalization, or liberalization, has been one of the major priorities of most national and global economic policies over the last two decades. Components of economic globalization/liberalization include trade and financial liberalization, deflationary macroeconomic policies, fiscal restraint, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and labor market liberalization (Razavi, 2008, p. 1). The adoption of market principles into public management and provision of public services has resulted in the elimination of subsidies, increasing poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities. Vulnerable, marginalized, and weaker sections of society, including unskilled and low-skilled workers and the poor, continue to be disadvantaged in this current economic climate that emphasizes capitalism, market economy profit and competition at the expense of social justice and human rights. Economic globalization with its associated liberalization policies has also resulted in an increase in labor mobility across borders, as in the case of capital and technology. Some people, including high-skilled, low-skilled and unskilled workers, migrate to find better wages and more job opportunities. One of these groups of low-skilled and unskilled workers includes domestic migrant workers.
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Joseph, C. (2013). Globalization, Social Justice, and Migration: Indonesian Domestic Migrant Workers in Malaysia. In: Brickner, R.K. (eds) Migration, Globalization, and the State. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033765_3
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