In an era of global labor markets, the demand for foreign workers as an input of production in labor-importing countries is the major driver of international labor migration. It can be noticed that, in the tradition of the labor movement, the migration flow was overwhelmingly from less developed to more developed countries and has geographically occurred from the Global South to the Global North region. However, recent trends have shown a rapid increase in the flow of migrants from less-developed economies to newly emerging countries in the developing world, known as "South-South" migration (Ratha and Shaw 2007; Hujo and Piper 2010). The growing presence of migrant workers in the South has continuously sparked heated debate in migrant-receiving countries over both economic and social impacts of migrant intakes as well as the policy implications
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