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Members of the Asean committee on the implementation of the Asean declaration on the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers meet in Indonesia. —ASEAN.ORG PHOTO
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April 25, 2026April 25, 2026Economy

The mirage behind Asean’s vision of free labor flows 

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When the Asean Economic Community was officially launched in 2015, the rhetoric was intoxicating. A single market and production base. The free flow of skilled labor. A region where a Filipino engineer could compete on equal footing with a Singaporean counterpart, where a Filipino nurse could work in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok...