UNEMPLOYMENT: THE ‘ALARMING RATE’ OF RISING ‘MIGRANT BOAT CRISIS’ IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
MD. SAIFUL ISLAM *
Department of Public Administration, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The manuscript provides the grievous information about the ‘migrant boat crisis’ in Southeast Asian Countries like Myanmar, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. All migrants come from Bangladesh who lives under the poverty line and huge number of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and they are landed in Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The study also focuses the unemployment rate that is very much related to this burning issue ‘migrant boat crisis’ in this arena. This manuscript also attempts to discuss the relationship between unemployment and the rate of rising ‘migrant boat crisis’ in Southeast Asia. It is also mentioned that this study identifies some important reasons behind the crisis, which are further divided into two parts- i) primary reason and ii) secondary reasons. Finally, the manuscript gives some suggestive measures for the helpless people of Southeast Asia and also some structural recommendations for a ‘Global Peace Village’ to the World Leaders respectively.
Keywords: Unemployment; migration; boat crisis, GDP, Lower-middle income, human traffickers, smugglers, Governments, rohingya, global peace, Southeast Asia