Migration Policy of Brunei’s Foreign Workers: A Case Study of Immigration and Employment in Brunei’s Labour Market
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Foreign workers had played a key part in Brunei’s labour market which is derived
from a permission from Brunei government for the employers to import and employ the foreign workers in Brunei’s labour market. In this article, a researcher would like to analyze the Brunei government’s migration policy of foreign workers in Brunei’s labour market by using a qualitative case study methodology. Based on the study, it was found that foreign worker’s migration policy of immigration and employment was under a demand-driven system in which an employer had to apply for a requisition to Brunei government on immigration and employment of foreign workers outside the Brunei’s labour market including both skilled foreign workers in the primary labour market as well as low skilled or semi-skilled foreign workers in the secondary labour market. Hence, Brunei government should develop a migration policy, especially for skilled foreign workers in the primary market in order to attract those skilled foreign workers to be human capital for supporting a knowledge-based economic development of Brunei accordingly.
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