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As we live around "fast-flows" society, people interact, intersect, intermingle and intermix with each other. International policy portrays the world as a relationship within. Each member of this global village knows each other business just like their next-door neighbor. Each country has their own agenda to empower and develop the wealth of their inhabitant. The social nature of human as the inhabitant of country is to interact. The country as well needs interaction one another. The relationship between countries could be done through politic, economic, military, and educational type of interaction. Economic relationship between countries has been extensively increased due to the world financial condition. Every country tries out any opportunity to relate to international scheme in order to increase or maintain its welfare. Welfare affects people as a production factor. When one couldn’t taste welfare in their own area, he will seek out in the neighbor’s area. This phenomena lead to mobility of labor. Labor moves to other country to pursue better life on the other hand neglecting its own country welfare. The small quantity of labor mobility reduces the country welfare. | There are many term concerning labor. They are all started as academic terms and mass media have been using them ever since as popularize the terms. Migrant worker, global labor, forced labor, free labor, female labor, skill labor, and international labor are some of them to name a few. | ||
As we live around "fast-flows" society, people interact, intersect, intermingle and intermix with each other. There are 45 million new entrances to the global market jobs across the globe and the labor forces are growing even considering the global economic crisis. | |||
International policy portrays the world as a relationship within. Each member of this global village knows each other business just like their next-door neighbor. Each country has their own agenda to empower and develop the wealth of their inhabitant. The social nature of human as the inhabitant of country is to interact. The country as well needs interaction one another. The relationship between countries could be done through politic, economic, military, and educational type of interaction. Economic relationship between countries has been extensively increased due to the world financial condition. Every country tries out any opportunity to relate to international scheme in order to increase or maintain its welfare. Welfare affects people as a production factor. When one couldn’t taste welfare in their own area, he will seek out in the neighbor’s area. This phenomena lead to mobility of labor. Labor moves to other country to pursue better life on the other hand neglecting its own country welfare. The small quantity of labor mobility reduces the country welfare. | |||
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The studies in some literatures about the motivation and reason behind the global labor mobilization are most of the time being related with welfare. The certain condition the origin country of labor brings some urges to grasp the opportunities elsewhere. | The studies in some literatures about the motivation and reason behind the global labor mobilization are most of the time being related with welfare. The certain condition the origin country of labor brings some urges to grasp the opportunities elsewhere. | ||
Welfare is not only limited to wage however this seems to be the motive behind the mobilization. An illustration in the health field, nurse from Philippines earn $189 per month working in Manila. Filipino nurse work in Gulf could earn $570 and some of their fellow Filipino nurse work in US earns $3.000. Standard of living in the | Welfare is not only limited to wage however this seems to be the motive behind the mobilization. An illustration in the health field, nurse from Philippines earn $189 per month working in Manila. Filipino nurse work in Gulf could earn $570 and some of their fellow Filipino nurse work in US earns $3.000. Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) sent home around 14, 4 billion US dollars in the year of 2007. Standard of living in the developed countries is another driving force of this global labor. | ||
== Risk == | == Risk == | ||
Potential risks to the receiving countries are numerous. A part from the classical phenomenon such as illegal aliens, some social risks could also pinpoint. The undocumented workers come from illegal entrance or simply overstayed their visa and take up some informal jobs. Based on the data from 1994, the number of the category of labor reached up to 3 million in both USA and Europe. This fact brings the implication in the labor market although only apply in the unskilled market. This number will bring the implementation of tight policies concerning the global labor market in the particular country thus at the end affect both sending and receiving countries. | As many as 37,000 Pilipino has been flying abroad to find a better life through global labor market. Global labor market is growing not merely because of globalization. It has been a market since labor from low-wage nations looked outside their countries as the grass is greener. Even though around 70 per cent of the countries have increased its minimum wage as big as 5.7 per cent per year in real terms, the global labor market is emerging. Although unskilled-workers suffer the most, they keep coming in. From the farming field in America to Bangladesh construction workers in Middle East, their wages and working conditions are scary. It is well said that globalization has brought impact to labor market. Even though more goods are produced and manufactured in developing countries where labor costs are cheap, workers are going outside their country to find the better conditions. It is not surprising fact when we find tag label of any jeans, electronics, jacket, etc which say made in Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, China, Thailand, etc. Services are also delivered and relocated from countries where it is possible for companies to cut cost. India has the largest call center off shoring in Asia. Inhabitants of those countries mentioned are still looking outside and end up in the different side of the pole to try they luck. | ||
Human being travel not only brings his body but also bring his value and culture. This fact could potentially resulted in conflict as interrelated with others. The conflict sometimes could be in direction to violent. | Standard of living in the giving countries mostly is low compare to its receiving countries. One of the indicators of living standard is income per capita. Some low-income and middle income countries mostly supply unskilled-workers into global labor market outside their country of origin. Countries with income per capita less than US$ 975 like Bangladesh, Mali, Senegal, Myanmar, etc as low-income countries are “sending” their unskilled-workers without proper education and even travel document. ([http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/DATASTATISTICS/0,,contentMDK:20420458~menuPK:64133156~pagePK:64133150~piPK:64133175~theSitePK:239419,00.html]) | ||
Looking at it from worker’s point of view, just picture a shoe worker in America that has lost his job because of his company couldn’t compete with the low cost production in Brazil. Some Chinese workers who work for food industries drowned in the sea due to lack of safety facilities and bad working conditions by British gang masters. This chance of death on the job is probably never come across these workers who came all the way from China through illegal channel. | |||
The international labor standard has come to an ideal condition. Some of the workers are exploited due to their low bargaining position. It is inevitable that working conditions vary all around the globe. | |||
Some people try their luck by getting into some developed illegally. Some workers are willing to work for a decent pay even though the job is lower than their qualification, educational background and experiences. | |||
Potential risks to the receiving countries are numerous. A part from the classical phenomenon such as illegal aliens, some social risks could also pinpoint. This social implication does worth mentioning compare to global labor who gives impact in lowering the local’s wage. The impact to local’s wage is minor compare to the cost of social impacts. | |||
The undocumented workers come from illegal entrance or simply overstayed their visa and take up some informal jobs. Based on the data from 1994, the number of the category of labor reached up to 3 million in both USA and Europe. This fact brings the implication in the labor market although only apply in the unskilled market. This number will bring the implementation of tight policies concerning the global labor market in the particular country thus at the end affect both sending and receiving countries. | |||
Human being travel not only brings his body but also bring his value and culture. This fact could potentially resulted in conflict as interrelated with others. The conflict sometimes could be in direction to violent. Some forms of racism also are faced by workers and their family in the receiving countries. A common reason from the locals is because the global workers are taking away their job opportunities. Even worst is the act of xenophobia by narrow-minded local which resulted in a greater potential cultural conflict. | |||
The unskilled labor could at least work their way up by working on their next generation even if they have to work long hours under minimum wage in that country. | |||
== Opportunity == | == Opportunity == | ||