Restructuring Foreign Worker Policy and Community Transformation in Malaysia

Abstract: Malaysia is one of the most rapidly growing economies in Asia and is blessed with foreign workers inflow to sustain the economic growth process. However, the strong national sentiments among the local community, which harbors ill perception towards the foreign workers, lead to regrettably vague policies concerning foreign workers. As far as this issue is concerned, Malaysia needs to reform the policy regulations so that foreign workers will be able to integrate into the economic transformation of the country. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the current regulations regarding foreign workers policy in Malaysia. Arguably, foreign worker regulations can be improved by referring to Malaysia’s past experience and copy the models of other foreign-workers-friendly countries. A process-oriented methodology was adopted in this study to understand the issues associated with foreign workers, community transformation, and policy implementation. The result of this study shows that

Object Details

• Alternative title: Die Restrukturierung der Arbeitsmigrationspolitik und Transformation der malaysischen nationalen Gemeinschaft
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Restructuring Foreign Worker Policy and Community Transformation in Malaysia ; volume:42 ; number:3 ; pages:348-368 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Historical social research ; 42, Heft 3, 348-368

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Wirtschaft

Further information

• DOI: 10.12759/hsr.42.2017.3.348-368
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-54617-8
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 10:54 AM CEST