ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapter of this book. The book presents some important insights into the institutionalization of migration processes in China and its significance initiating and perpetuating emigration flows, especially international movements. The issue of protection of the rights of migrants is emerging as one of the pre-eminent themes in migration policy in Asia. It indicates three modes of incorporation of Chinese migrants into local destination labour markets as is the case elsewhere in Asia. First, a small number of educated professionals are able to enter highly paid, highly skilled sectors of the labour market by virtue of their formal qualifications. Second, large numbers of entrepreneurs, usually operating at a relatively small scale, become established, often with the assistance of friends and family already at the destination. Third, many migrants enter the so-called 3D (dirty, dangerous, difficult) lowly-paid, low-status jobs at the destination which are eschewed by the local labour force.
