Background

Migration can be a positive and empowering experience, the outcome of a genuine choice between a future at home and one abroad. Migration can lift individuals and communities out of poverty. Under the right conditions it can bring diversity, socio-economic contributions and empowerment to home and host communities. But for many migrants and people in Asia who aspire to migrate, their mobility is the result of a compulsion to leave their country because they see no future for themselves, their families and communities there. The resulting migration can take place along regular as well as irregular pathways, but in most cases, it will be precarious, and often dangerous and exploitative. While the countries of South and South-East Asia are diverse in their economies, demographics, geography, polities and history, the lack of adequate enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights emerges as a common key driver of precarious forms of migration from these subregions.

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