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Asia’s Closed Door to Immigration

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Philip Bowring
Sep 16, 2008
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Despite nearly 30 years of headlong industrial development in Asia, individual governments are still reluctant to allow workers to migrate freely across borders to find jobs, according to an exhaustive new study of migration patterns by the OECD.

While more Asians are moving to Asia’s richer parts, the numbers are quite small compared with those who go t…

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