Singapore Liberal Migration Rules

• Singapore, an economically developed city state of 5.7 million people, has an ethnically diverse population as a result of its British colonial past and well positioned as a trading-hub in Asia.
• Singapore has an open policy towards economic migrants but also a two tier system recognising 'foreign workers' (low-skill labour often from India, the Philippines, Thailand) and 'foreign talents' (high-skill from developed countries).
• Singapore's treatments of 'foreign workers' has been questioned as many live in crowded dormitories, are paid poorly and have few rights.
• • Singapore = liberal migration
  • Great ethnic diversity
  • Linked to colonial past as port and transformation into 4th largest financial Center
  • No indigenous population
  • Acts as a place for ‘brain drain’ migrants as a switched on country