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Singapore and Thailand have been rapidly ageing. There has been a growing demand for eldercarers in the home-setting for which migrant domestic workers have filled the role. This paper examines the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Consensus governing women migrant workers entering the eldercare sector. It argues that because the ASEAN Consensus is not legally binding, it only serves to reinforce the sovereignty of states in the treatment of migrant workers instead of member states acting in unison to ensure labour protections for this group; as a result, Singapore and Thailand do not feel the need to step up protections for this group of workers according to national labor laws and hence low-skilled women migrant workers entering the eldercare sector continue to be vulnerable to labour abuses. Thus as with globalization, the ASEAN Economic Community manifests the paradox of borders: that while states are economically interconnected and interdependent, they are simultaneously disconnected and independent from each other.

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[ Abstract ]
Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Singapore’s and Thailand’s Ageing Profile
Ⅲ. Labor Migration in the ASEAN Region: Decades of Seesaw Negotiation
Ⅳ. Member State Responses to the ASEAN Consensus
Ⅴ. Conclusion
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저자

• Theresa W. Devasahayam [ Foreign Expert, Institute of Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University, Thailand. ]
• Rossarin Gray [ Director, Institute of Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University, Thailand. ]

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• 간행물명

  수완나부미 [Suvannabhumi]

• 간기

  반년간

• pISSN

  2092-738X

• 수록기간

  ~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 309 DDC 306