ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the results of research on the case at the regional level of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) interactions. These results reveal characteristic, regional-level, institutional identities and discourses that influence policy-making processes regarding migrant workers' protection. The chapter contextualises the case by presenting the background of the conditions for migrant workers' protection at the regional level of ASEAN, as compared with migrant workers' protection in the European Union (EU) and MERCOSUR. It reviews migrant worker protection mechanisms within ASEAN to unravel the form and progress of protection policies. The chapter assesses the identities and discourses at the regional level by looking closely at ASEAN's position. It analyzes and reconfirms the suggestion that the identities and discourses of regional-level institutions have offered insufficient support for the development of norms relating to migrant workers' protection. The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint provided a platform for migrant workers' protection to be governed at the regional level.
