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Why Illegal Migrant Workers In Jail? : An International Social Work Perspective

This article explains the dilemma of Indonesian illegal migrant workers (PATI) in Malaysia regarding “injustice” treatment during their prosecution. As we know, those who could not complete their travel documents are prohibited to enter any single country in the world, while same treatments are also given to Illegal migrant workers. However, what happened in Malaysia is illegal workers were arrested and treat as a criminal. The Indonesia and Malaysia government did not realize this policy is inefficient, require a huge budget and allegedly colored with human rights abuses. The two countries should transform this policy and commence to formulate an effective and accountable policy. The Japanese’s policy in order to handle illegal migrant workers is feasible and should be learned. Japanese government will deport and transfer directly to the home country while could not show their immigration documents. It looks more prudent, accountable and efficient without any single moral abuses which relatively unproblematic whether to the host or home country. Therefore, this article attempts to observe and analysis as well as propose recommendation in relation to illegal migrant workers management to the both countries.