Institutional Capacity, Migration Patterns and Related Rights Issues: When Senders of Migrants Become Receivers

This project investigates the multi-directional nature of labour migration flows, which has resulted in an increasing number of countries having become both senders and receivers of migrants. Academic studies tend to identify countries according to a neat sending or receiving binary when in fact they are both. Sending countries tend to see themselves primarily as ‘senders’ and so prioritise policy development based largely on their experience regarding outgoing migrants, who are citizens. In the process, these states typically overlook legal obligations that they then have to incoming migrants, including migrant workers, refugees, international students and spouses. As part of an attempt to examine the phenomon, this research project focuses on policy making experiences in Indonesia, which is popularly perceived as a sending country, as the state develops a ‘national plan on migration management’ that ought to consider all relevant migration patterns and related rights issues.

Funding awarded to Bina Nusantara University
Amount awarded Rp 10,000,000