Last September 30, Malaysia was the venue for migrant-serving institutions, grassroots migrant organizations, service providers and migrants’ rights advocates to gather and hold the regional consultation to discuss how they can advance the human rights of undocumented migrants in the Asia Pacific. Discussing at length the developments by which migrants are subjected to unjust and inhumane working conditions that make them eventually undocumented, by which they are illegal and virtually hunted down like hardened criminals.
It was through this consultation that various strategies and tactics both at the national and international levels have been deliberated and agreed on to create opportunities and spaces for migrants to express themselves, be educated or informed, and empowered in the process. Service providers likewise saw the need to expand their network in further reaching out to and working with migrant workers, regardless of their status.
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