Migrant Times

South Korea’s Employment Permit System generally requires new applicants to be between 18 and 39. Former E-9 workers seeking another Korean job through Special EPS-TOPIK face the same ceiling, even after they have already worked in the country.

Can love cross borders? Absolutely (shout out to dating apps and this thing called the internet). Making a life together? That’s another matter. Sometimes, a government gets a say, too.

As globalization accelerates, more Japanese expatriates are sent abroad on fixed-term assignments. However, when they build families and raise children there, their stay becomes more than just a career move.

88rising scouted Indonesian performers for a girl group whose plans already included Los Angeles. Before releasing music together, they spent a year in Jakarta finding out what kind of group they would be.

A second passport can give people access to two legal and economic systems, but its value depends on whether those systems offer meaningful rights and opportunities.

Indonesians are still moving between sectors and into new kinds of work. But too often, those moves are not leading to the pay and security needed to stay middle class.

Malaysia has begun returning 1,476 Myanmar nationals in the first phase of a wider repatriation plan, despite UNHCR and civil society groups warning that ongoing conflict and persecution mean Myanmar remains unsafe for return.

Phnom Penh’s proposals focus on intelligence and money tracing, legal cooperation, private-sector action and the safe return of trafficking victims.