This paper revisits the assumed economic advantage of temporary labour migration. The widely shared sentiment that temporary migration brings about economic advantage for migrants and their families often is a function of income differentials between two countries. This study argues that...

Gender impacts upon the amount of money remitted, the recipients of remittances, and the uses of remittances on the development of the country of origin. However, the data on global remittances is gender-blind. As a result, the impact of gender on the remittance process remains little...

Recruitment constitutes an important part of the process of temporary labour migration in Asia. Existing literature explicitly suggests that rapid development of recruiting agencies and migrant networks has accelerated the growth of labour migration in Asia. However, most existing literature...