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Across Asia, governments are experimenting with policies designed to capitalize on the rapid expansion of remote work.
For decades, migration governance in Asia rested on the simple assumption that work and workers moved together.
Countries such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and the Philippines supplied labor to wealthier economies in the Gulf and East Asia, while destination countries competed to attract workers through immigration and labor market policies. Migration governance was largely organized around regulating the movement of people across borders.
That assumption is now beginning to break down.
